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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="docs-internal-guid-813a185d-7fff-2fa1-aee1-60c27577743c">Plan S Implementation Feedback - Europe PMC</span></span></b>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Europe PMC (life sciences literature archive) has submitted a formal response to the implementation guidelines for Plan S.
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our response suggests how core services could provide required technical capability, working together with the institutional repository network to ensure Plan S compliance and support Plan S </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">goals</span>.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We strongly support the adoption of the technical guidelines regarding the use of JATS/XML, as it provides the best opportunity for discovery, interoperability and reuse of the full text content, with the caveat that this approach cannot be effectively implemented within the institutional repository system due to high cost and technical limitations. We believe that large-scale, aggregated and shared service(s) could deliver the core technical requirement, while providing distribution mechanisms to the IR community.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We welcome your feedback to this response, which is publicly available on Europe PMC blog: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://blog.europepmc.org/2019/02/europe-pmc-plan-s-feedback.html">http://blog.europepmc.org/2019/02/europe-pmc-plan-s-feedback.html</a>.</span></p>
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Maria Levchenko
Community Manager, Europe PMC
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:levchmar@ebi.ac.uk">levchmar@ebi.ac.uk</a>
Tel: + 44 (0) 1223 494511
Visit our blog: blog.europepmc.org
Connect with us on Twitter: twitter.com/EuropePMC_news</pre>
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