[BOAI] Plan S and Researchers' Rights: (Re)Framing Academic Freedom

[Richard Poynder]

Extract from a guest post by Marc Couture:

 

The announcement of Plan S has generated many much needed (and much heated)
discussions. I'm pleased to observe that these don't concern the relevance
of open access, whose wide-ranging benefits now seem to be almost
universally acknowledged, but only potentially negative side-effects of the
massive, if not global, shift to open access that the plan hopes to bring
about.

 

Though many aspects of the plan are somewhat unclear, and most details of
its implementation are still being drafted, what we do know already raises
various worries. One is a possible conflict with academic freedom.

 

Two requirements of the plan are specifically targeted: (1) publication only
in compliant journals (full OA, no hybrid) and (2) dissemination under a
licence compliant with the Berlin OA definition, which would require authors
to accept ceding generous usage rights in their works to others.

 

The post can be read here:

 

https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpoynder.blogspot.com%2F2018%2F11%2Fplan-s-and-researchers-rights-reframing&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C9ba0932f3680436c42c608d6494871cc%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C1&sdata=dJGyLZy%2BJrwmEKmdwMTJ3s02YQoTNtkcGve7EkUgv9Y%3D&reserved=0
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