#OAI13 @kfitz highlights that despite the vision in the BOAI
that OA would "lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge" today how OA is being implemented may have resulted in reducing equity. #BOAI20 refocuses OA on equity.

The president for research at #SpringerNature defends transformative agreements (aka #ReadAndPublish agreements) without confronting any of the serious objections to them.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/transformative-agreements-are-now-key-open-access

For some of the serious objections to them, see e.g. the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, esp Recommendation 4 ("move away from read-and-publish agreements"). Disclosure: I helped write these objections.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

See the #BOAI20, Recommendations 3 & 3.7: "We recommend moving away from article processing charges (#APCs). Viable alternatives have long existed, but they are systematically under-noticed, under-discussed, under-appreciated, under-funded, and under-used…Shifting resources from APC-based OA to #green & #diamond OA will enfranchise more voices in global research without reducing the quality or openness of research."
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #GreenOA #DiamondOA

Lopsided assumption: "For many in scholarly communications… flipping a [journal] to #gold #OpenAccess remains the ultimate victory."
https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/going-for-gold-deep-in-the-red

That's true for some in #ScholComm. But it's not true for many others, especially if the flipped journal would charge #APCs. A growing number of us want to move away from #APCs and take better advantage of #green and #diamond OA. See for example the #BOAI20.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#Diamond OA #GoldOA, #GreenOA

@mike
Update.

Those are the two largest reasons. For several others that are smaller or less direct, see the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations, Recommendation 3 (and its 13 sub-points).
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

Update. Note that a year ago this month the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations came to the same conclusions on #APCs and #ReadAndPublish agreements. (See the final two recommendations.)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

Update. Remember this from the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations (section 3.2): "The opacity of APCs supports APC inflation and payments far in excess of services rendered."
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20 #APCs

@sje
Hear hear. For more arguments against transformative agreements, see Recommendation 4 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI, #BOAI20

Today is the 21st birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative…
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

…and the first birthday of its 20th anniversary recommendations.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

I'm proud of my association with both.

Happy #Valentine's Day to all who are working for #OpenAccess worldwide.

#BOAI, #BOAI20

2/ PS. I'm working toward a world in which universities & funders "pay less attention to where research is published and more attention to the quality of research itself" (quoting the #BOAI20). Institutional inertia makes this a long game.

But peer reviewers have 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒋𝒐𝒃, to comment on the quality of the research itself.

Editors: When you find referees raising this kind of irrelevant objection, I hope you will draw it to their attention and/or take them off your list for future assignments.

The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (aka All European Academies, #ALLEA) just released an excellent critique of #APCs and #transformative (read-and-publish) agreements, building up to an excellent set of recommendations, including #RightsRetention.
https://allea.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ALLEA-Statement-Big-Deals-and-the-New-Copyright-Rules.pdf

PS: It's similar in these ways to #BOAI20.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#OpenAccess #Copyright #ScholComm

@journalofpoliticalecology I share objections to #APCs and #transformative agreements you cite here. See the #BOAI20 recommendations 3 and 4, which I helped write.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/