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Wait, how doe this solve anything, except making the journal less accessible to readers? … 😑 "To make JOM a journal accessible to everyone working in the optical microsystems field, we have thus decided to shift from Gold Open Access to hybrid open access, starting in 2025. Authors will now have a choice: publish for free under access control, or pay the APC, in which case the article is Gold Open Access and free to read for everyone." "Accessibility and Open Access," Journal of Optical Microsystems 5(1). https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-optical-microsystems/volume-5/issue-01/010101/Accessibility-and-Open-Access/10.1117/1.JOM.5.1.010101.full (2025-03-12 ↗)
From today's The Observer ‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten by Kathryn Bromwich "Even though we are seeing fewer headlines about long Covid, previously healthy people are still contracting it, with each successive infection increasing the risk. “We sometimes will see someone who’s had Covid one, two or three times without problems, and then on the fourth time, suddenly they’ve got long Covid, and that makes them ill for a long time,” says Heightman." … #CovidIsNotOver https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/02/were-losing-decades-of-our-life-to-this-illness-long-covid-patients-on-the-fear-of-being-forgotten (2025-03-02 ↗)
@ElenLeFoll @janalasser also, nice to see the article is published #openaccess 😍 https://hcommons.social/@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org/113868096037630844 (2025-01-24 ↗)
👏🏽 Brilliant summary & analysis of the recent discourse around #IchbinHanna (mostly on that platform formerly known as Twitter), a hashtag used to highlight the systemic and highly-precarious employment situation in German academia, penned by Ahmadou Wagne, Florentine Frantz, @ElenLeFoll and @janalasser "We conclude that the #IchBinHanna & #IchBinReyhan movement has succeeded in foregrounding systemic problems that have long existed in German academia. While debates are still ongoing, we are hopeful that the issues and potential solutions highlighted by the movement will precipitate into changes to academic working conditions in Germany." Highly recommended for anyone considering a position at a German HEI … Wagne, A., Le Foll, E., Frantz, F., & Lasser, J. (2025). Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan. Information, Communication & Society, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273 (2025-01-24 ↗)
📢 Just out before the winter break: Save the Date for the third instalment of the @RadicalOA conference, scheduled for April 10-11, 2024 in Cambridge and online! Theme: 'Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism' https://hcommons.social/@RadicalOA/113680204423546613 (2024-12-20 ↗)
