https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00172-y?
Many researchers support open science, but how can they translate this view into behaviours to boost sharing?
“Researchers in Malaysia have the impression that you pay to publish in open-access journals, which is associated with predatory journals. I do not want the quality of my work to be judged like that,” says Sivapragasam, who is now a master’s student in science communication at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK.
even Nature's parent company wants payment for open-access publishing.
Also open-materials used to be the norm until the Harvard mouse patent came in and others following put the whole thing into jeopardy.