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‘Small but sustainable? Scholar-led journals and open access’

October 30, 2020

Early results from a DFG-funded study of diamond OA scholar-led journals in Germany: About 20 percent of the titles receive subsidies, mostly from university libraries. The authors aren’t sanguine about the other 80 percent:

All but a few key journals rely on unpaid labour and self-exploitation (e.g., by the editors, reviewers, designers). The journals do not point to a sustainable financing model.

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