AAAS Plan S Compliance Policy: Staying Committed to Subscriptions
AAAS continues its commitment to the subscription model to praise from cOAlition S. Are there lessons for other publishers?
Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part Two
Robert Harington talks to a range of expert stakeholders with differing views about the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy and Creative Commons Licensing. Part 2. of 2 interview posts.
Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part One
Robert Harington talks to a range of expert stakeholders with differing views about the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy and Creative Commons Licensing. Part 1 of 2 interview posts.
Explaining the Rights Retention Strategy
Unpacking each word — rights, retention, and strategy — enables understanding what this policy is and how it functions within the Plan S compliance framework.
cOAlition S’s Rights Confiscation Strategy Continues
By calling its new policy a “Rights Retention Strategy,” cOAlition S is engaging in doublespeak. This strategy actually does exactly the opposite of what it claims.
Guest Post — An Open Agenda: European Funder Approaches to Open Science
Rob Johnson of Research Consulting and Vanessa Proudman of SPARC Europe look at a recent survey of of European funders to explore what’s being done to drive change in scholarly communication, and argue that funders’ open policies could be backed up more by funders’ own practices.
Revisiting — Transformative Agreements: A Primer
Do you know what is meant by the term “transformative agreement” or how “Read and Publish” deals are structured? Today we revisit the 2019 primer by @lisalibrarian explaining the basics concepts behind these increasingly important approaches.
The Kitchen at the APE: Five Chefs Share Takeaways from the 2020 Academic Publishing in Europe Conference
Here are some takeaways from last week’s Academic Publishing in Europe meeting, from Chefs who were there (either physically or virtually).
Global Science, China’s Rise, and European Anxiety
While some talk about global science, China’s skyrocketing investment in its scientific sector is causing real anxiety for Europe.
The Year in Review: 2019 In The Scholarly Kitchen
As we sign off for 2019, a look back at the year in The Scholarly Kitchen.
Will the Hybrid Journal Be Transformed by Plan S?
Plan S proposes criteria for the “transformative journal” – how are publishers responding?
Historians Respond to Plan S: Open Access vs OA Policies Redux
For years humanists have been pointing to the real advantages of openness and accessibility, and the real costs of rigid, monolithic open access policies. The Royal Historical Society studied the landscape for Plan S compliance and the implications for UK historians.
Can Geowalling Save Open Access?
Geowalling open content is proposed yet again. As a thought experiment, @lisalibrarian explores what Plan S principles would be compromised by this tactic.
Guest Post — The Future of Open Access Business Models: APCs Are Not the Only Way
Highwire’s Byron Russell reports on this year’s OASPA Conference, and future paths to sustainable open access business models.
Roadblocks to Better Open Access Models
The conversation around open access has shifted from “should we?” to “how are we going to?” The failings of the author-pays model are becoming increasingly evident. Finding better models is proving to be both urgently necessary and extremely difficult.