[GOAL] Plan S: What strategy now for the Global South?

[Richard Poynder]

Since the 2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative the OA movement has had many
successes, many surprises, and many disappointments. OA initiatives have
also often had unintended consequences and the movement has been beset with
disagreement, divisiveness, and confusion. 

 

In that sense, the noise and rancour surrounding Plan S is nothing new,
although the discord is perceptibly greater. What seems clear is that Plan S
raises challenging questions for those in the Global South. 

 

And even if Plan S fails to win sufficient support to achieve its
objectives, ongoing efforts in Europe to trigger a "global flip" to open
access, and the way in which open content is likely to be monetised by
commercial publishers, both suggest that the South needs to develop its own
(alternative) strategy.

 

I have explored what I see as the issues and discuss a possible strategy in
the essay here:
https://poynder.blogspot.com/2019/02/plan-s-what-strategy-now-for-global.htm
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The essay ends with an interview with Omar Barreneche, Executive Secretary
of Uruguay's National Agency for Research and Innovation.

 

The first Twitter reviews are in!

 

https://twitter.com/rschon/status/1096535339051700224

 

https://twitter.com/TomReller/status/1096565601974317056

 

https://twitter.com/irenehames/status/1096711870466142208

 

 

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