Indeed, our friends in the Global South have been quietly getting in with it for some years & we could learn a few things from them.
About your comment "the commercial elements of our industry continue to cause unprecedented damage to our research and our society", though... PeerJ is a commercial element of the industry. I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to say Pete Binfield & Jason Hoyt have caused unprecedented damage to our society, so perhaps you'd like to rephrase & maybe be more careful with your language in the future? On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 2:00 AM Jon Tennant <jon.tennan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list members, apologies for cross-posting as always, > > Many of you probably saw this powerful recent article by Humberto Debat > and Dominique Babini, "Plan S in Latin America: A precautionary note" > https://peerj.com/preprints/27834/, which is well worth reading if you > haven't. > > Building upon this, in this latest video for the Open Science MOOC, > Arianna Becerril-Garcia from AmeliCA and Redalyc discusses the leading role > they are playing with Open Access in Latin America. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQDFHBJX7xI > > It is really quite inspiring. For those of us in the western world, I feel > like a lot of the time we like to think we are leading the global charge > for OA. I learned many years ago that this is not true, and in fact the > commercial elements of our industry continue to cause unprecedented damage > to our research and our society. We should be looking to our friends in > Latin America about the incredible work they have been doing for decades > now. It is quite eye-opening, and I think a discussion worth developing. > > Have a great weekend! > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Rogue Palaeontologist; PhD, MEarthSci, MSc - * > *Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Paris.* > > *Latest papers*: Ten hot topics around scholarly publishing > <https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/7/2/34> and Open Access in Palaeontology > <https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2019/2548-open-access-in-palaeontology> > . > > - Founder of the Open Science MOOC -* Join us today > <https://eliademy.com/opensciencemooc>! *(open Slack > <https://osmooc.herokuapp.com/> channel) > > > <https://eliademy.com/catalog/catalog/product/view/sku/02d7338a7e> > > - Founder of *paleorXiv* <https://paleorxiv.org/>, a free, open source > digital publishing platform for all Palaeontology research > - Companion Website <https://paleorxiv.github.io/> > - Independent open science communicator and consultant > <http://fossilsandshit.com/open-scholarship/> > - Author of Excavate! Dinosaurs > > <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Excavate-Dinosaurs-Paper-Toy-Palaeontology/dp/178240144X> > and > World of Dinosaurs (coming 2018) > > *Personal website <http://fossilsandshit.com/> - Home of the Green Tea and > Velociraptors blog.* > > *ORCID:* 0000-0001-7794-0218 <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7794-0218> > *Twitter:* @protohedgehog > <https://twitter.com/Protohedgehog> > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal >
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