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After 1 January 2020 scientific publications on the results of research funded by public grants provided by national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.
(Plan S, key principle, September 4, 2018)
The European Commission, European Research Council, and the national science funding organisations of Austria, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK together fund €7.6 billion of research. In a combined initiative (Plan S), that research must be freely accessible from January 1, 2020 on: anybody must be able to freely download, translate or re-use the resulting papers.
In cases where no quality open access journals or infrastructure exist, the members of Plan S will provide incentives and support to do so.
Any open access publication fees will be funded by the funding organizations, and not individual researchers; universities, libraries and other research organizations will be asked to align their policies and strategies.
The funding organizations will monitor compliance, and punish non-compliance.
This might change the face of scientific publishing in two years time, posits Nature. If the point of punishing non-compliance isn't contentious enough, another one of Plan S's principles might be:
The 'hybrid' model of publishing is not compliant with the above principles.
As currently only 15 percent of scientific publications are open access, this would mean that scientists involved will be barred from publishing in 85% of journals, including influential titles such as Nature and Science.
Also at Science Magazine and the PLoS Blog.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @06:04PM (4 children)
Why are they delaying this? Actually, all the old papers should be released too. Recent papers are mostly junk in many fields (psych, medical).
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday September 04 2018, @06:49PM (1 child)
The easy way to release old papers would be to change the copyright laws.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @08:08PM
Currently, the easiest way to get the old papers is using scihub. I have no qualms of doing it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Kymation on Tuesday September 04 2018, @06:52PM (1 child)
The delay is to allow time for new open-access journals to be started. Or possibly for existing journals to change their policies, although I don't expect this to happen. It's more likely that the existing journals will sue to block or delay implementation to protect their cash cows.
Existing papers are already under a restrictive contract. It's unlikely they will be freed without somebody paying a lot of money to make that happen. Again, very unlikely.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 04 2018, @09:15PM
The delay is to allow time for the existing journals to plan their legal attack so that science can end up becoming more privately profitable silos of information and patents.
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