<font face="Arial" size="3">Dear Colleagues，</font><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">OA2020 Mainland China signatory libraries held a meeting recently in NSL/CAS and discussed their response to Plan S Guidance on Implementation. The participants understood that the formal feedback
deadline has passed but, realizing China has been an active and important
partner in the global research enterprise and in the global open access
movement, it is critical for Chinese research and library communities to get
involved and to be heard in development of the future scholarly communications
ecosystem. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">The following (and the attached file) is the report: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">OA2020 Mainland China Signatory Libraries Discussed a Response </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">To Plan S Guidance on Implementation</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">Mainland China signatory libraries of OA2020 Initiative Expression of
Interest held a meeting March 26, 2019, at the National Science Library,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, to discuss a response to Plan S
Guidance on Implementation. The participants represented the following
institutions: National Science and Technology Library, National Library of
Science (Chinese Academy of Sciences), National Agricultural Library (Chinese
Academy of Agricultural Sciences), Peking University Library, Tsinghua
University Library, Fudan University Library, Sichuan University Library, ShanghaiTech
University Library, China University of Mining and Technology Library, Xi’an
Jiaotong-Liverpool University Library, Southern University of Science and
Technology Library, Guangdong Science and Technology Library, Guangxi
University of Science and Technology Library, Guangxi University of Chinese
Medicine Library, Nanjing Normal University Library. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">P</span><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">lan S</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> is an
initiative for open access by the cOAlition S that requires immediate and
complete open access from 2020 of scientific publications resulting from
research funded by </span><u style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/about/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">cOAlition S</span></a></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> members. cOAlition S
has issued the 10 principles of Plan S and then, for comment, a </span><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/feedback/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">Guidance for Implementation</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">.
The participants understood that the formal feedback deadline has passed but,
realizing China has been an active and important partner in the global research
enterprise and in the global open access movement, it is critical for Chinese
research and library communities to get involved and to be heard in development
of the future scholarly communications ecosystem. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">The participants listened an analysis of Plan S Principles and its
Guidance on Implementation and a summary of feedbacks to Plan S Guidance from
researchers, universities, libraries, publishers, and learned societies. Based
on their own situations and concerns, the participants discussed their
responses to Plan S Guidance on Implementation. They expressed their strong
support to open access, strong willingness to participate in implementation of
open access, and strong willingness to participate in international rule
setting of open access and open knowledge ecosystem and in development of
related infrastructural tools. They call upon all the related parties to
facilitate the implementation of open access and development of related open
knowledge infrastructure. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">The followings are the discussed response to Plan S Guidance on
Implementation. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">01 We are in broad support of Plan S and its goals to ensure immediate and
complete open access to journal articles resulting from publicly funded
research to the world. We applaud the effort of Plan S to provide strong
incentives to make research open access. We support an international effort to
achieve this goal worldwide as soon as possible. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">0</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">2 We fully recognize that the need for forceful and accountable policies
by public funders in research, education, and libraries, to facilitate open
access against various entrenched interests or the inertia of the status quo.
We urge all in research, education, publishing, platforms, repositories, and
libraries to engage diligently in transformative efforts abreast with time to
meet the challenges. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">03 We support the Final Conference Statement of the 14</span><sup style="font-family: Arial;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> Berlin
Conference on Open Access with its commitments. We urge all the publishers </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">to work with the global research community to effect
complete and immediate open access according to the Statement. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">04 We support the principles and roadmaps of OA2020 Initiative which aims </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">to transform a majority of today’s scholarly journals
from subscription to OA publishing, while continues to support new forms of OA
publishing.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> We believe the </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">transition
process can be realized within the framework of currently available resources. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">We
see no legitimate reasons for, and will object to, any attempts to increase
spending from the original subscribing institutions in the transformation. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">05 We support that authors retain copyrights of their publications in open
access publishing through journals or open access platforms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">06 We support that open access publications are made under open licenses.
We support the use of the CC_BY license as the preferred one but recommend that
other CC licenses also be allowed as compliant to Plan S. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">07 We recognize the strong need for compliant requirements, agreed by the
research communities, for open access journals and platforms. We agree that
infrastructural instruments like DOAJ and OpenDOAR can be utilized to help identifying
and signaling compliance, but we urge that cOAlition S and other funders
recognize and support other appropriate mechanisms for the purpose and require
any such instruments are put under international oversight by the global
research community to ensure their no-for-profit nature, inclusiveness,
objectiveness, integrity, and efficiency. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">08 We
commend the recognition by Plan S that there exist different models of
financing and paying for Open Access publication. We support an inclusive range
of immediate open access publishing approaches. We support the transparency and
monitoring of open access publication costs and fees. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">09 We urge that cOAlition S and other funders, through Plan S or other
means, provide financial support for no-fee OA journals. The wide range of
support approaches to no-fee OA journals should be encouraged to enhance the
diversity of open access publishing and competiveness of publishing market, and
to avoid the perverse effect of giving no-fee journals an incentive to start
charging fees. While the support can start with general term statements,
measures can be timely designed and tested to encourage quality, integrity,
transparency and openness, and increasing host investment and other diverse and
appropriate income. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">10 We support that where article
processing charges (APCs) apply, efforts are made to establish a fair and
reasonable APC level, including equitable waiver policies, that reflects the
costs involved in the quality assurance, editing, and publishing process and
how that adds value to the publication. We hold it very important that any such
effort should take into consideration of the diversity in the world to ensure
applicability and affordability of any such measures across countries and
disciplines. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">1 We commend the support and requirements of Plan S for financing
APCs for open access publication in subscription journals (‘hybrid Open
Access’) only under transformative agreements. These agreements should be
temporary and transitional, with a shift to full open access within a very few
years. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">12 We understand the purposes and the benefits of using ORCIDs in journal
publications. Considering different paces of adopting ORCID in different
regions and disciplines, we recommend that it is implemented as a preferred
condition, at least in the short beginning years. We recommend the same
treatment for using DOI. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">13 We support the Plan S recommendation that “all publications and also
other research outputs deposited in open repositories.” We recommend that Plan S
make full acknowledge and use of the full range of capabilities of open repositories
to support open access, long-term preservation, research management, and re-use. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">14 We encourage that Plan S takes the transformative green OA mechanism as
one of venues to implement open access, as long as the embargo period of compliant
green OA repositories should be reduced to zero in a short time. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">15 We understand the purposes and the benefits of automatic ingest of
publications, JATS XML format, Open API to allow others (including machines) to
access, QA process to integrate full text with core abstract and indexing
services. We support the efforts to work toward adapting to these or equivalent
techniques for more efficient processing and better use of open access content.
We call on publishers and libraries to strive for this. However, at the
beginning, we recommend that these are implemented as preferred measures. Other
means of ingest, different machine-readable publication formats, alternative Open
APIs or even temporarily lacking of Open APIs, and other means of QA should be
allowed as compliant. At the same time common best practice guidelines and infrastructural
support should be developed with international consultation to make the best
and easy use of these or other equivalent methods or techniques. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">16 We recommend that Plan S add as a requirement that, either by national
laws or regulations, or by grant contract requirements, that funded authors
retain sufficient and non-exclusive rights to deposit their publications into
open repositories. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">17 We commend and support the intention of cOAlition S
and other public funders to support mechanisms for establishing Open Access
journals, platforms, and infrastructures where necessary in order to provide
routes to open access publication in all disciplines. We encourage efforts by
funders to increase the innovation and competitiveness of open access
publishing and open access infrastructural instruments. </span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3"><br></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">via </font></span>Xiaolin Zhang</div><div>--Xiaolin Zhang
National Science Library, CAS
33 Beisihuan Xilu, Beijing, 100190, China
Tel: 86-10-82628347; Fax 86-10-82626600
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