<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">The coronavirus crisis shows how nice it would be to have free access to journals and books. Why is it called publishing if it is not available for the public except for a few who pay lots of money? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It also shows how livable our big cities would be without all the traffic and pollution from cars and planes. Even L.A. and Beijing had a blue sky for a few weeks.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: ∄ uǝlƃ <gepropella@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 6/17/20 22:40 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: FriAM <friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] talking about all this free content </div><div><br></div></div>Huge open-access journal deal inked by University of California and Springer Nature<br dir="auto">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/huge-open-access-journal-deal-inked-university-california-and-springer-nature<br dir="auto">> The University of California (UC) system today announced it has signed the biggest open-access (OA) deal in North America with one of the largest commercial scientific publishers. The agreement with Springer Nature includes a commitment by the publisher to explore making all articles that UC corresponding authors publish in the Nature family of journals immediately free to read on publication starting in 2022.<br dir="auto">> <br dir="auto">> The new deal is notable, in part, because it includes Nature, one of the world’s most prominent journals, as well as highly selective sister titles in the Nature Research group, which total 148 journals. “These flagship journals are the hardest nut to crack [for OA], and this is the first big step forward, we think worldwide, in doing so,” says Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, university librarian at UC Berkeley and co-chair of UC’s publisher negotiation team.<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">-- <br dir="auto">☣ uǝlƃ<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br dir="auto">FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br dir="auto">Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam<br dir="auto">un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com<br dir="auto">archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/<br dir="auto">FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ <br dir="auto"></body></html>