Uvodnik
https://doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2021.62.4
The impact of Plan S on scholarly journals from less developed European countries
Jelka Petrak
orcid.org/0000-0003-1481-2598
; Central Medical Library, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
Lea Škorić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1545-5791
; Central Medical Library, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
Bojan Macan
orcid.org/0000-0003-1138-4188
; Centre for Scientific Information, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Sažetak
In September 2018, Science Europe (https://www.scienceeurope.org/) launched the cOalition S initiative for increasing open access (OA) to research data and publications derived from publicly funded research projects. The
backbone of the initiative is Plan S, with one main goal:
“With effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional and international research councils
and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo” (1).
Whichever of these three routes is taken, “all publications
must be published under an open license, preferably the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), in order to fulfill
the requirements defined by the Berlin Declaration.” Plan S
defines OA platforms as publishing outlets for original research publications (such as Wellcome Open Research or
Open Research Europe, which will soon be launched by
the European Commission), and not those that are serving to aggregate or re-publish content already being
published elsewhere. It recognizes the importance of the
green route to OA and strongly encourages the deposition of all publications in a repository, irrespective of the
chosen route. Plan S recommends not to support hybrid
journals in their current form. Instead, it encourages various transformative agreements with publishers of subscription journals for their transition to fully OA journals by
gradual increment of their OA content and by offsetting
subscription income from payments for publishing services to avoid double payments (2). For example, the ESAC
Transformative Agreement Registry has compiled a list of
more than 160 transformative agreements signed all over
the world between large scientific publishers and consortia/institutions (3).
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
278022
URI
Datum izdavanja:
25.2.2021.
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