Gary Hall<p>cOAllition S emphasizes that support for its Transformative Journal programme will cease by the end of this year.</p><p><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/transformative-journals-analysis-from-the-2023-reports/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">coalition-s.org/blog/transform</span><span class="invisible">ative-journals-analysis-from-the-2023-reports/</span></a></p><p>Is there an argument that even this is too late?</p><p>That a lot of damage has already been done through:</p><p>1) <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@cOAlitionS_OA" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cOAlitionS_OA</span></a></span>'s tacit positioning of APCs as the main model for paying for open access, the enshrining of this model, and the introduction of it in places where it did not operate previously?</p><p>2) the embedding of this APC model in some organisational budgets?</p><p>3) the ensuing extraction of large amounts of money from the higher education system over the period between the launch of cOAllition S in 2018 and the end of this programme 2024?</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/oa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oa</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openhumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openhumanities</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ScholarlyPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScholarlyPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DiamondOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DiamondOA</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NoAPCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoAPCs</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a></p>