From 6626dcfc0b4b6c75c60f2f0015d3e4471eb4df02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: LTK1 <34627908+LTK1@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:46:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update 2018-01-01-collective-action-in-science-diamond.md --- _posts/2018-01-01-collective-action-in-science-diamond.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2018-01-01-collective-action-in-science-diamond.md b/_posts/2018-01-01-collective-action-in-science-diamond.md index 370c4f8..717ab96 100644 --- a/_posts/2018-01-01-collective-action-in-science-diamond.md +++ b/_posts/2018-01-01-collective-action-in-science-diamond.md @@ -68,9 +68,9 @@ Commercial publishing has led to a corruption of the core scientific process its The pledge recognizes the above issues, and we, therefore, call for collective action through this pledge. The pledge constrains the signee to publish a minimum proportion of scientific papers under a Diamond Open Access agreement (i.e., with no costs to publish or to read the paper). -As described by Smout ([2022](https://freeourknowledge.org/about/)), Academia is trapped in a collective action problem where researchers are incentivized to act in ways that hurt their community’s best interest and, ultimately, their own. Acting without coordination, it is far too difficult to achieve a paradigm shift because of the (social costs)[https://doi.org/10.21428/43418882.9eeb0e4a] researchers face when taking action against the current system. Specifically, while many researchers seem to agree that the services that commercial publishers offer are minimal or of poor quality (e.g., proof-editing services, article archiving and indexing, promotion) relative to the associated costs (e.g., see van Noorden, 2013; [Solomon & Bjork, 2012](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.22673)), single researchers would risk their competitiveness if they unilaterally decide not to publish their work with journals like Elsevier and Springer. +As described by Smout ([2022](https://freeourknowledge.org/about/)), Academia is trapped in a collective action problem where researchers are incentivized to act in ways that hurt their community’s best interest and, ultimately, their own. Acting without coordination, it is far too difficult to achieve a paradigm shift because of the [social costs](https://doi.org/10.21428/43418882.9eeb0e4a) researchers face when taking action against the current system. Specifically, while many researchers seem to agree that the services that commercial publishers offer are minimal or of poor quality (e.g., proof-editing services, article archiving and indexing, promotion) relative to the associated costs (e.g., see van Noorden, 2013; [Solomon & Bjork, 2012](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.22673)), single researchers would risk their competitiveness if they unilaterally decide not to publish their work with journals like Elsevier and Springer. -Therefore we need to act collectively. The health of academic research is dependent on us as researchers to protect our publishing ecosystems. We believe that a successful collective action will eventually lead to support by stakeholders beyond the researchers themselves, such as governments and funding institutions ((Hellard, 2022)[https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2022/09/27/les-etats-doivent-comprendre-a-nouveau-en-quoi-la-recherche-academique-est-fondamentale_6143451_3232.html] in French; [Weingart & Taubert, 2017](https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28913)). +Therefore we need to act collectively. The health of academic research is dependent on us as researchers to protect our publishing ecosystems. We believe that a successful collective action will eventually lead to support by stakeholders beyond the researchers themselves, such as governments and funding institutions ([Hellard, 2022](https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2022/09/27/les-etats-doivent-comprendre-a-nouveau-en-quoi-la-recherche-academique-est-fondamentale_6143451_3232.html) in French; [Weingart & Taubert, 2017](https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28913)). * Special thanks to Huggo Hellard for help writing this problem analysis.