Dear list members, For those who haven't got completely befuddled by the discussions around Plan S yet. The Free Journal Network (plus me) have just submitted formal feedback to the implementation guidelines for Plan S. Hopefully, it provides a bit more of a provocative view on many elements of the present publishing ecosystem, and can encourage even more debate. We do, of course, welcome any feedback on anything discussed.
Tl;dr: We argue that Coalition members should favour, both in words and via their spending decisions, community-controlled, no-author-fee journals over commercially owned journals charging APCs. This is for reasons of fairness, economic efficiency, and sustainability. We see Plan S as a strong statement and step in the right direction, but encourage Coalition members to be more forward-thinking about how they want the future scholarly publishing market to look, and make sure that they are giving due consideration to the non-commercial elements of the ecosystem. Also included are some comments from the FJN members, as well as more than 100 annotations left on the guidelines via Hypothes.is. Best, Jon p.s. Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Nomadic Palaeontologist, Rogue Open Scientist; PhD, MEarthSci, MSc* - Founder of the *Open Science MOOC <https://eliademy.com/catalog/catalog/product/view/sku/02d7338a7e> * <https://eliademy.com/catalog/catalog/product/view/sku/02d7338a7e> - Founder of *paleorXiv* <https://paleorxiv.org/>, a free digital publishing platform for Palaeontology - Companion Website <https://paleorxiv.github.io/> - Independent open science communicator and consultant <http://fossilsandshit.com/open-scholarship/> - Author of Excavate! Dinosaurs <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Excavate-Dinosaurs-Paper-Toy-Palaeontology/dp/178240144X> and World of Dinosaurs (coming 2018) *Personal website <http://fossilsandshit.com/> - Home of the Green Tea and Velociraptors blog.* *ORCID:* 0000-0001-7794-0218 <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7794-0218> *Twitter:* @protohedgehog <https://twitter.com/Protohedgehog>
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