As editor of an OA journal that desperately wants libraries to send us $$ so we can stop charging APCs, this story makes me 😞.
And frustratingly, bc we’re
@CollabraOA & not a Nature jrnl, I bet it wouldn’t matter even if our impact factor went up (we’ll get a new one tomorrow).
I found out my university doesn’t subscribe to Nature Human Behaviour, so I asked why. Librarian: because when the journal started in 2017, it was nothing but “Human Behaviour” with the prefix “Nature”, while subscription costs were ten times higher than normal. 1/10 🧵