För några månader sedan intervjuades Lars Björnshauge i Against the grain och hade bl.a synpunkter på s.k. transformativa avtal av den typ som BIBSAM tecknat och som han anser ha bisarra konsekvenser och enbart gynnar dom globala aktörerna på bekostnad av OA, öppen tillgång. I nu tjugo år har BIBSAM kritiserats för att inte gynna fri tillgång till vetenskaplig information för alla.Lars Björnshauge var en av kritikerna redan då. Ingegerd Rabow även hon från Lund inte att förglömma. . v32#4 ATG Interviews Lars Bjørnshauge, Managing Director and Founder of the Directory of Open Access Journals BY AGAINST THE GRAIN | SEP 30, 2020 | 0 COMMENTS By: Tom Gilson (Associate Editor, Against the Grain) and Katina Strauch (Editor, Against the Grain) https://www.charleston-hub.com/2020/09/v324-atg-interviews-lars-bjornshauge… Klipp: Regarding hybrid open access: Hybrid open access was invented by publishers to accommodate the increasing number of open access policies and mandates in universities, research funders and governments, and to allow researchers to publish in their preferred journals. Under a slogan of protecting academic freedom, publishers could offer researchers the ability to continue submitting to their preferred journals or prestige journals. It is a well-known fact that the fees charged by hybrid journals are on average twice as expensive as the APCs charged by fully open access journals. But, it is a less well-known fact that hybrid articles do not participate in the functionality of link resolvers because the OpenURL framework was architected only at a journal level. A reader in a university seeing a citation to a hybrid article will only see the link to the full- text if the university subscribes to the containing journal. Otherwise it will look to the user like they have no access to that article. Hybrid “open” is very much a false promise, but has nevertheless allowed commercial publishers to continue to distort the publishing business. Now, the recent variants of “transformative agreements” only makes the grip of narrow commercial interests even stronger, with the consent of the academy (universities, libraries and research funders). These developments have the bizarre consequence that the fully open access publishers, who are doing exactly what universities and research funders want to see happen — (open from day one with liberal use, reuse and remix rights) are being disadvantaged and sometimes even excluded from the competition Jan -- Jan Szczepański F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora, vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek E-post: Jan.Szczepanski63 at gmail.com