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zoinkability t1_janm53j wrote

Reply to comment by Andromeda321 in Royal Astronomical Society announces all journals to publish as open access from 2024 by magenta_placenta

Do papers currently published in MNRAS also go into ADS? If so, what would the point be of this move? If not, doesn't this move still have value for access (if not for researchers wanting to publish)?

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Andromeda321 t1_janpbcr wrote

They do- literally all papers do in astro. It's an amazing resource.

The point of this move is the UK funding agencies have prioritized open access across all of science. Which is great... but in the case of astronomy, it already basically is. The only ones paying for access these days are basically universities and the like.

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nivlark t1_japim7f wrote

Yes, but for new papers ADS is just a catalogue - it doesn't store the full text. Often you can get the paper's preprint on arXiv, but this can differ from the published version (in particular, it reflects the paper as it was before peer review).

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