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#COAR (@coar_repositories) is exactly right about what's wrong with the #ACS and #IEEE demands that their authors pay them a fee for the right to deposit their accepted author manuscripts (#AAMs) in #OpenAccess #repositories.
coar-repositories.org/news-upd

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* The charges applied are completely arbitrary and not based on any real service provision (for example, IEEE applies a fee to authors who want to apply a CC-BY licence to their AAM; and ACM applies a fee for removing the embargo period). They are just another funding stream for publishers that are already making huge profits.
* Deposit fees disadvantage authors who do not have funding to pay
* These fees amount to #DoubleDipping since the final published version of the AAM is made available behind a paywall with no discount
* This practice prevents universities and research organisations from creating an accessible record of their scholarly output.
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And COAR is exactly right about the solution: author #RightsRetention. When authors retain key rights, they don't need publisher permission to deposit their works in OA repositories -- or to use and reuse them in other important ways as well.

PS: See my similar argument on a related ACS move last year.
fediscience.org/@petersuber/11

COAR · Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rightsImage: Adobe Stock Image Scientific knowledge is a public good Science and scholarship are about sharing and advancing knowledge, and many open access policies have been diligently designed in orde…

From concept to cosmos: Webb #engineers on the #telescope that changed everything
The team behind the #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope (#JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (#IEEE) for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science.
The award is well deserved, considering how the JWST – a project with contributors including #NASA, #ESA, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) – turned out.
theregister.com/2025/03/28/jam

The Register · From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everythingBy Richard Speed
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@danielskatz @JeffCarver @npch

Cool!

Related early access paper from the upcoming special issue "Research Software Engineering: Discovering and Bridging Knowledge Gaps" in #IEEE #ComputingInScienceAndEngineering:

📄 T. Kehrer, @hainesr, @juckeland, @shuruiz and D. E. Bernholdt: "Do Research Software Engineers and Software Engineering Researchers Speak the Same Language?", doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2025.3557.

The paper presents ongoing work mapping #SWEBOK terms to #RSEng terms.

(The issue collects outputs and related work from #Dagstuhl24161, dagstuhl.de/seminars/seminar-c.)

So my daughter will take her first solo international trip tomorrow. She’s the current #IEEE region 3 student representative (kind of a family tradition, I was the rep for region 8 back in my student days). IEEE has 10 worldwide regions and they all meet in person at least once a year. This time, it’ll be in Panama City. Good thing she has a German passport to fall back on if the Panamaians get too pissed at the US. I’m excited for her. Should be a fun trip.