“ 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.
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.