Thank you very much, Mark, for a most heartening piece of news. It also 
underscores that librarians do have some degree of freedom in allocating 
money from their budget, thus contradicting the "conduit theory" of 
libraries that some advocate as a way to justify their passivity or 
conformity to dominant models. Of course, anyone watching Chris Bourg at 
MIT knows that this conduit theory of librarianship is simply silly.

Jean-Claude Guédon

Le 2024-05-22 à 09:25, Mark Huskisson a écrit :
>
> Another mass resignation at a Wiley journal as the editors and all of 
> the editorial board members of one of the most influential journals in 
> moral and political philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs, have 
> resigned en masse 
> <https://dailynous.com/2024/05/22/editors-at-philosophy-will-launch-new-oa-journal/>. 
> This makes 11 journal mass resignations at Wiley since 2018 according 
> to the Retraction Watch Mass Resignation List 
> <https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-mass-resignations-list/>.
>
> As the Daily Nous says according to their statement, crucial aims of 
> scholarly journals are “not well-served by commercial publishing ... 
> The outgoing editors and editorial board members will be launching a 
> new diamond 
> <https://www.coalition-s.org/diamond-open-access/> open-access 
> journal to be published by Open Library of Humanities (OLH) 
> <https://www.openlibhums.org/>, 
> and will be occupying at the new journal the same positions they held 
> at /Philosophy & Public Affairs/.”
>
> You can read the statement at the links above, it includes this 
> familiar opening: "Faced with this conflict between purpose and 
> business model, we have decided to embrace the purpose and move to an 
> alternative model. The alternative—which our librarian colleagues have 
> been urging for some time—is for libraries, universities, and other 
> academic institutions to offer direct support for the publication of 
> open-access journals, which are guided by independent scholarly 
> judgment and freely available for authors and readers."
>
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