What of scholar-led OA publishing? Our article doi.org/10.1111/area... For scholarly work, print-only books are not OA, and therefore unavailable to the world, much of which cannot access them for reasons of geographical location or cost. This is unjust.

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I have been doing this as a social scientist in order to complete a book on the ethics, role of non-human actors, and political economy of pandemics, and goodness me, philosophy is a minefield ! I think we will finish it without a full knowledge of traditions and styles of argumentation.

Currently not electable.

No worries, Handbook not out quite yet. Sorry, a typo, when trying to meet the character limit. Communities of scientists are also being ineffective though. Live issue at our uni., which has signed up to DORA but still looking at journal rankings. Old habits die hard.

On it already. Q.why are pol ecologists publishing with them? you name?Batterbury,SPJ&Silva Garzon,D. '25. Publishing in Political Ecology:Rethinking unequal relationships and social justice.In Hope,J,Apostolopoulou E, & Collins YA (eds)New R'ledge Hbook of Political Ecology. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

An exasperated post as a journal editor since 2002 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Thanks to York lecturer Dr Judith Krauss, @judithekrauss.bsky.social
who co-edits one of the oldest OA wholly journals in social sciences, Journal of Political Ecology [estab 1993/4]. @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social Community-led. free, and a 'labour of love'.

I see them in most cities I have lived and worked in. Some schemes are terrible, others better, & socioeconomic and planning factors determine how successful. Also the weather & price

Sorry, departments

It may seem catastrophic,& I know the French system, but some anglo unis have been suffering this for decades. The French state may be badly managed at the moment but it is so strong compared to the UK, or Australia, that I do not think it will let universities collapse. May cut a few debts. though!

Known them for 30 yrs. the book needs to be open access, like all of my own. We are old enough to pay for that now! Secondly, communication with non-human nature is pretty much central to most Australian Aboriginal culture on country. I hope that gets a section. It has been documented for decades.

Sponsored by MDPI? Ouch. See for example, the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Another problem is that I played my students a 2-minute bbc podcast about dam construction here in Australia, and it was preceded by two minutes of adverts!

BBC Sounds was closed to non UK based listeners on July 21. Thanks BBC