Feeling sad. Yesterday, I resigned as an associate editor from Royal Society Open Science bc they will be part of Read & Publish contracts from Jan 2021 ( https://royalsociety.org/journals/librarians/subscribe/read-and-publish/)
I will also no longer review or submit articles there. (a thread)
#BulliedIntoBadScience
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RSOS & @RSocPublishing kindly engaged w me on the topic & asked what they could do to change my mind. I asked them to exclude RSOS from all R&P contracts. It’s not going to happen, but discussion further clarified why contracts r bad
https://twitter.com/LoganCorina/status/1326497908414410757
#BulliedIntoBadScience
I added these clarifications in a new section at my and @DieterLukas’s analysis of Read & Publish / Transformative agreements: “These agreements restrict competition because they are CONTRACTS...”
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TUuoHV8yA0TSLUCo0PhrzfR5lwWruZQibKimOoVVJ6E/edit?usp=sharing
#BulliedIntoBadScience
ReadAndPublishAgreementsUnethical

‘Read and Publish’ ‘transformative’ agreements are just another version of hybrid and are UNETHICAL Dr. Corina Logan The new ‘Read and Publish’ / ‘transformative’ agreements are just another version...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TUuoHV8yA0TSLUCo0PhrzfR5lwWruZQibKimOoVVJ6E/edit?usp=sharing
Their arguments for the R&P model: all pay to publish models are discriminatory, R&P=Plan S' end goal, R&P contracts allow unis to drive down prices, RSOS=subsidized, professional costs money, non-UK funders won’t pay APCs but will sign R&P deals, need income to support science
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