In her Keynote speech "We won't be bullied into bad science" at the Munin Conference, Corina Logan in the slide Exploitative route perfectly explains the damage that current scientific communication produces.

To date, in the subscription regime, each article costs $ 5000 (as it is already read in Max Planck's White Paper).

Corina founded Bullied Into Bad Science, an initiative aimed at young researchers, born after in 2016 JISC in the UK signed a contract with Elsevier without taking into account the positions of many researchers from Cambridge and other universities who had requested a "sustainable" contract.

Quoting Paola Galimberti, it is necessary that we begin to talk about the costs of scientific communication and that those who negotiate contracts do so with a specific mandate and according to the needs of the community that they represent.

There are at least three shades of open,

(a) closed instruments used in a closed manner

(b) closed instruments used in an open manner

(c) open instruments used in an open manner

The initiative Bullied Into Bad Science stands on the b)

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