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This article is available at Chapman University Digital Commons: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/ library_presentations/28 SCELC Open Access Webinar: Defining Plan S & Transformative Agreements Kristin Laughtin-Dunker and DeDe Leshy February 18, 2020 Presenters Kristin Laughtin-Dunker DeDe Leshy Coordinator of Scholarly Communications & Senior Medical Librarian, Electronic Electronic Resources Resources Leatherby Libraries Medical Library Chapman University Cedars-Sinai Medical Center [email protected] [email protected] History of Plan S Kristin Laughtin-Dunker February 18, 2020 Plan S Initiative for OA publishing launched in September 2018 by cOAlition S, a consortium of research funders launched by the European Research Council. 13 national research funding organizations and 4 charitable foundations from 13 countries: ► European Commission ► Wellcome Trust ► Austria: Austrian Science Fund ► Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ► Finland: Academy of Finland ► Swedish Riksbank's Jubileumsfond (RJ) (*support withdrawn March 2019) ► France: Agence Nationale de la Recherche ► Compagnia di San Paulo ► Ireland: Science Foundation Ireland ► Italy: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare ► Luxembourg: Luxembourger National Research Fund ► Netherlands: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research ► Norway: Research Council of Norway ► Poland: National Science Centre ► Slovenia: Slovenian Research Agency ► Sweden: Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas) and Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) Plan S Plan S is designed to be a decisive movement to make research and publications openly available. The “S” stands for “shock”. Original statement: “After 1 January 2020 scientific publications on the results from research funded by public grants provided by national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.” This deadline has now been extended to January 1 2021 or, for publishers agreeing to implement Plan S in their policies after January 2020, one year from that agreement. Plan S Original 10 Principles: 1. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under an open license (preferably CC-BY). 2. Members of the coalition (funders) will establish robust criteria and requirements for compliant OA journals and platforms. 3. The funders will provide incentives to establish and support compliant journals, platforms, or infrastructures if they do not yet exist. 4. OA publication fees (APCs) should be covered by the funders or universities, not individual researchers. 5. OA publication fees are standardized and capped. 6. The funders will ask universities, libraries, and research organizations to align their policies. 7. All types of publications will be subject, but the timeline for books and monographs may extend beyond 2020. 8. Open archives and repositories are acknowledged for their importance. 9. Hybrid OA journals are not compliant. 10. Funders will monitor compliance and sanction non-compliance. Plan S During a transition period, publishing in a hybrid journal that already has a transformative agreement to flip and become OA will be allowed. The contracts must be publicly available and may not extend beyond 2024 (originally 2023). Green OA is OK as long as there is no embargo and there is a CC license. Plan S Criteria for OA journals and platforms: Content must be immediately free to read and download, with a CC-B Y, C C -BY-SA, or CC0 license. Must have a solid review system in compliance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Fee waivers for authors from low-income countries, and reductions for authors from middle-income countries. Details about publishing costs impacting publication fees must be transparent. DOIs must be used as permanent identifiers. Long-term digital preservation strategy by deposit in archiving program (e.g. LOCKSS/CLOCKSS). Accessibility of full text in a machine readable format (XML/JATS) for text mining. Link to raw data and code in repositories. High quality, machine readable article level metadata and cited references under a CC0 public domain dedication. Machine readable information on OA status and license. Plan S Statements of support from: Europe’s National Institute for Health Research SPARC Europe Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology COAR (Coalition of Open Access Repositories) OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association) OpenAIRE African Academy of Sciences Faculty of 1000 Over 113 institutions from 37 nations in 5 continents in one joint statement; various individual statements. Additional statements of support are linked on CoalitionS’s website here: https://www.coalition-s.org/supporters/ Other countries joining Plan S: Jordan Zambia Updates to Plan S The funders that make up cOAlition S announced revisions to the implementation plan on May 31st, 2019: Timeline for official implementation has been extended one year to January 1, 2021, and to 2024 for transformative agreements . Funders have agreed to revisit their assessment policies and not take into account the name or prestige of the journal a funded article appears in. Funders are no longer required to place a cap on APCs. Heather Joseph of SPARC is troubled by this because it “weakens an important cost-control mechanism” for scholarly publishing costs. CC-BY licenses are no longer mandated but “preferred”. Former Principle #8 has been eliminated and a new #10 added. Source: New implementation guidelines and revised principles: https://www.coalition- s.org/principles-and-implementation/ Updates to Plan S Changes to the 10 Principles (paraphrased): The former #8 (recognizing repositories and archives for their importance) has been removed. The former #9 has become the new #8: Funders do not support the ‘hybrid’ model of publishing. However, Funders may provide financial support for articles published in journals under a transformative agreement. The former #10 has become the new #9: The Funders will monitor compliance and sanction non-compliant beneficiaries/grantees. A new #10 has been added: The Funders commit that when assessing research outputs during funding decisions, they will value the intrinsic merit of the work and not consider the publication channel, its metrics, or the publisher. Reactions to Plan S: Objections OASPA (February 2019): Plan S puts smaller/emerging OA and pure Gold OA publishers at a disadvantage because all the discussions are focused around large, hybrid publishers that have the money and power to negotiate transition plans with funders. Small publishers do not have the power to negotiate transformative Big Deals on national levels. These publishers make up the long tail majority of OASPA members. Source: https://oaspa.org/oaspa-feedback-on-plan-s-implementation-guidance/ Reactions to Plan S: Sao Paulo Statement on Open Access African Open Science Platform, AmeliCA, cOAlition S, OA2020, and SciELO met during the annual meeting of the Global Research Council and authored a joint statement (May 2019): They consider that scholarly and scientific knowledge is a global public good. When generated by public funds, free access to it is a universal right. They share one common ultimate objective: providing universal, unrestricted, and immediate Open Access to scholarly information, including use and re-use by humans and machines. They share the belief that this common goal can be achieved through a variety of approaches. They will pursue points of alignment among their approaches and ways to co- operate towards reaching the shared objective. They seek an active dialogue with all stakeholders, including researchers, research funders, universities, libraries, publishers, learned societies, governments, and citizens to take into account the diversity of the global scholarly community. Source: https://www.coalition-s.org/sao-paulo-statement-on-open-access/ Reactions to Plan S: Objections Arianna Becerril-García (Executive Director of Redalyc