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On 1 December 2021, the German Physical Society (DPG) will present its "DPG Position Paper on the Future of Scientific Publishing", in which it calls for a reform of the scientific publishing system. The aim of the renewal must be to make research results universally accessible, to promote innovative publication models with quality-assurance measures and to establish a transparent cost structure. Among other things, the DPG argues for a more active role for actors in science: "Decision-making and responsibility should once again be assumed more strongly by researchers". The paper lists concrete options for action in four fields of action:

  • Open Access,
  • Cost and data transparency,
  • Lowering the entry threshold for innovations and new market participants
  • the role of the scientific community.

In the area of Open Access, the non-profit association DPG proposes "recognising a generally accessible archived version of the last submitted version of an article as its Open Access version, in order to decouple as far as possible at low cost the accessibility of research results from negotiations with publishers". Furthermore, the position paper rejects the current subscription model if entailing additional costs borne by the authors (APCs/BPCs). Similarly, fixed-price models in which OA articles are remunerated with lump sums can only be justified as a transition to a transparent, cost-realistic model; as long as they are not regularly adjusted to cost realism in negotiations between scientists and publishers. Furthermore, the DPG calls for the support of financial models that provide stable framework conditions for non-commercial OA platforms.

Read the position paper here https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/stellungnahmen-der-dpg/wissenschaftssystem/dpg-positionspapier-zur-zukunft-des-wissenschaftlichen-publikationswesens


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