Registration for the @sti2023 conference is open https://www.sti2023.org/registration/.

The conference is hybrid and we charge different fees for on-site and online participants.

I'm especially happy that we're able to offer a much reduced fee for online participants from lower income countries, defined as group A and B countries according to the #Research4Life classification https://www.research4life.org/access/eligibility/.

We hope this will contribute to a conference that is more globally inclusive.

@cwts

Global equity in scholarly publishing: Colleen Campbell of Max Planck Digital Library on how, as journals flip to #OpenAccess, new, unequal author barriers may replace reader barriers. OA2020 project looked at LMICs and found projects like #Research4Life don't avoid them needing subscriptions. #UKSG2023

This results in this #preprint show that more than 50% of researchers have used a scholarly #piracy site 🏴‍☠️ at least once:

👉 https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05965

Many academic publishers during the war supported Ukrainian researchers through #Research4Life = We have never had so much legal access to full texts! Thank you! 💙 💛

#openaccess #scihub #paywalls #scicomm

If your research is funded by an institution based in a Group A or B #Research4Life country, #OpenAccess publication in PLOS Climate is free!

List of eligible countries:
https://www.research4life.org/access/eligibility/

#Research4Life at #UKSGNov - access to 169k books, 40k journals for free / v low cost in LMICs