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Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says
- saagarjha 7y agoI’m a bit confused by the article: being on nature.com it seems to be talking about…itself? Is Plan S really open access, or just something that looks like open access?
- sohkamyung 7y agoThe article is by the Nature News section. As stated in the article: > Nature is editorially independent of its publisher, Springer Nature
- saagarjha 7y agoOf course, I missed that part…:/
- mlinksva 7y agoOn the second part, it's a negotiated transition to open access, with a period allowing for open access articles in not fully open access ("hybrid") journals. The second half of the article is fairly clear. More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_S https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_S
- rubidium 7y ago“ Plan S has extra technical requirements, such as that journals must be transparent about their OA pricing strategies to be deemed compliant. Inchcoombe said Springer Nature still needed clarity from Plan S on these details.” And here’s the crux of the issue. Publishers can’t give up their cash. So they’re going to stall and stall and stall. They don’t want this. Sounds like Plan S folded first. Too bad. Still room left in the war to have OA be victorious though. The main this is continuing to win hearts and minds of influential scientists and funding body leaders. They have the clout to push back against the publishing industry. Plan S is a great start but needs continued developments. What we need is for someone influential enough to start a whole new journal committed to completely OA publishing.