Inside the Battle Over OMB’s Shocking Proposed Rule Changes: How Top US Chefs Are Fighting Back on Research Funding
Academic publishing suffers from multifaceted injustices — by maintaining exploitative peer-review processes, by manipulating trust and biases, or by opaquely framing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA). The APC, in the name of promoting open access, is no doubt one of the biggest sources of injustice in the publishing industry. I therefore believe the OMB’s proposed refusal of the APC has created an opportunity to transform the current APC-dependent open access system.
At an institutional level, the NIH has already been trying to reform the APC by introducing a fee limit. Preprints, however, could be a great option to connect the US government’s two related mandates: i) to make federally funded research openly accessible (as in the 2022 OSTP Memorandum), and ii) not draining out federal funds in the name of APCs (as proposed in the latest OMB revisions). But no US federal agencies offer notable support for preprints.
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