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Dear all, The following might be of interest to the list. OpenAIRE welcomes the recent announcement of 'Plan S', in particular the following from the 10 Principles: 1. Author copyright retention: Authors retain copyright and should use open licenses such as the CC-BY license (or other licenses fulfilling the criteria of the Berlin Declaration). This is a crucial principle to enable the reuse of scholarly information. 2. Support for existing or future infrastructures: These infrastructures should be as open as possible in terms of governance and technology. 3. Recognition of the importance of repositories: The 'green' road to Open Access represents a cost-friendly and sustainable way of offering freely accessible, searchable and findable research artefacts. 4. Monitor compliance and sanction non-compliance: Follow up of OS mandates is a necessity, as well as to see funder output in terms of publications and data. We also expect the announcement of Plan S to have an effect on the following elements of the scholarly communication landscape: 1. Reinforce the role of the existing network of repositories. Sustained by hundreds of universities and other research institutions worldwide, repositories are an essential building block in the Open Access landscape. 2. Support versatile, alternative and innovative publishing models. Plan S should not 'seal' the current system, rather work to support collaborative Open Access publishing 3. Build trusted, open, new-generation infrastructures. Infrastructures to support research and reproducibility need to be built on the principle of 'open' Read the full statement HERE<https://www.openaire.eu/plan-s-a-european-open-access-mandate> Many thanks, Najla **************** Najla Rettberg OpenAIRE www.openaire.eu<http://www.openaire.eu/> @najlaoa Skype: najladpc Göttingen State and University Library Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1 37073 Göttingen
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