<story><title>Two major research funders to bar grantees from publishing in hybrid journals</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/win-open-access-two-major-funders-bar-grantees-publishing-hybrid-journals</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>I just read Wellcome&amp;#x27;s announcement [1], which has this interesting bit:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We will no longer cover the cost of OA publishing in subscription journals (‘hybrid OA’). We previously supported this model, but no longer believe that it supports a transition to full OA.&lt;p&gt;Whereas Plan S, IIRC, explicitly stated that research funded by them could not be published in hybrid journals, Wellcome merely states that they will not cover the cost - implying that well-resourced researchers are still allowed to use other funds to publish there?&lt;p&gt;Another interesting part of their OA policy is that they require organisations they fund to commit to DORA, i.e. to work towards not judging researchers on the names of the journals they publish in, but on the inherent quality of their work. In my opinion, this is the largest problem that is currently holding back the transition to open access and many other problems in science. (Disclaimer: I work on a project that hopes to solve this problem as well.)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wellcome.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;wellcome-updating-its-open-access-policy?utm_source=twitterShare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wellcome.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;wellcome-updating-its-open-acces...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Two major research funders to bar grantees from publishing in hybrid journals</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/win-open-access-two-major-funders-bar-grantees-publishing-hybrid-journals</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>Bravo, this is a huge deal, more to likely follow, it rather seems a secular shift is inevitable at least in some manner. One wonders where this will end and what it will mean for classical publishing. In my experience, incumbent industries are more powerful than we&amp;#x27;d imagine, and I&amp;#x27;ll bet that rather than witnessing classical publishing overturned, we&amp;#x27;ll just arrive at some kind of new equilibrium.</text></comment>