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About the topic
There are several indicators that the academic publishing industry is in crisis. The rise of Article Processing Charges (APCs) as an alternative finance stream instead of paywalling, has skewed the incentives towards volume and efficiency in expense of quality, the underwood of questionable and predatory journals is thriving, journals have a hard time finding peer reviewers, and so-called Transformative Deals are not as transformative as one had hoped. In Diamond OA journals, there is neither APCs nor paywalls, and the funding comes from other sources (universities, societies, foundations etc.). Many have suggested Diamond OA as one of the solutions to many of the challenges of the academic publishing industry of today.
But for Diamond OA to thrive, one needs stable funding, and, most of all, bottom-up initiatives from researchers themselves to found and run new Diamond OA journals, or “flip” existing journals to Diamond OA from other funding models.
Participants:
Per Pippin Aspaas is a Senior Academic Librarian at UiT, where one of his responsibilities is developing services for Diamond Open Access publishing. He is the head of UiT’s Diamond Programme and a host for the podcast series Open Science Talk.
Loukia-Maria Fratsea is a Researcher at the Department of Geography at Harokopio University in Athens, Greece, and serves as Vise-President of the European Sociology Association (ESA). She has been a member of ESA’s Publications Committee for the past five years. With support from MIT Press’ Shift+OPEN initiative, ESA has flipped both of their journals, European Societies and European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology to Diamond Open Access.
Justin Parks is a Professor in American literature and culture studies at UiT, and executive editor of American Studies in Scandinavia, a Diamond Open Access journal published by the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS). NAAS is the joint and principal academic organization for American Studies in the Nordic countries.
Grab your ‘matpakke’, listen to the talks, and join the Q&A to share your thoughts and questions!
How to join
The event is open to everybody and you can join online on Teams.
About Open Science Lunch
Each last Thursday of the month at 12.00 we invite you to join us an open lunch to hear about how to make your research more open. We will discuss research transparency and visibility, open publishing, data sharing, and more! After each short presentation we will have a Q&A session, where you can ask questions or try yourself some of the tools and solutions we will present!