A new push for a more equitable scientific publishing system is in the making as the proponents of ‘diamond’ open access - under which neither authors or readers would pay the publishers – weigh up joining forces in a global federation.
Publishers face being ‘mere service providers’ under new vision, but critics question whether global adoption of proposals will be any wider than their predecessors
The group of leading research funding agencies in cOAlition S is looking to step up the push for a more open, equitable and faster science publishing system, in a proposal for system-level reform.
All the editors and their entire editorial board resigned after Elsevier refused to make Lingua fully open access and to transfer ownership of the 66-year-old journal to them.