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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
GIft link (should get you behind paywall)

https://wapo.st/43sc0Bz

Link if you subscribe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/rfk-jr-ban-journals-lancet-jama/

In case you missed this in the Library Link of the Day

New to me.

https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12481
The ‘hijacking’ of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems: Implications for the information systems community [Information Systems Journal]

Beth

Nov 2, 2023 8:30 AM

Ana Valente

** with apologies for cross-posting **

One of the key points coming out of the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference was the crucial need to fully enable author choice and author rights when publishing their research open access:

We strongly support retention of copyright and all rights therein by authors. Open…[Read more]

ICYMI

Hi All,
Just a reminder that Indiana University Libraries invites you to remotely attend our Open Access Week keynotes on Friday, October 27th:

• From 1 to 2 p.m., Lucy Lu Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington iSchool, will present, “Taking and Giving Back? Open Access, Generative AI, and the Transformation of…

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https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/10/04/call-open-debate-open-science-opinion

“… in July, the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released language in a spending bill that, if passed into law, would effectively freeze the Nelson memo for a year by banning the use of funds to implement the…[Read more]

The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen

ACS is proposing what they call Author Development Charges (ADC’s).  These are fees promised to the publisher, prior to peer review, that will allow the author to buy-out the embargo from…[Read more]