Dear colleagues, One of the discussions of Plan S is about its impact on researchers from less wealthy institutions. The article below is typical and I found the comment below insightful.
It made me wonder, would it be possible to link APCs to the service level? We could make a system where you can only ask for the maximum APC mentioned in plan S if you provide all services required by Plan S, while journals fulfilling less requirements would have a lower maximum APC. Maybe an old idea/compromise, but I had not seen it anywhere yet. With best regards, Victor Venema https://grassroots.is https://theconversation.com/how-the-open-access-model-hurts-academics-in-poorer-countries-113856 > Dominique Babini > > Thank you for this very interesting reading and contribution to the > conversation on the negative impact of APCs in developing regions. You are > so right.Why did APCs started? We, in Latin America, worked the past 20 > years to build successful non-commercial, non-APCs, academic-led, open access > journals (only 5% of journals charge very low APCs) and now we are shocked to > see that the basic question is not raised again and again: why should > publicly-funded research outputs be a product in the market and not a > commons/public good, and why open access should be a market and not a commons > managed by the scholarly community?We are concerned with growth in the number > of articles published with APCs, and because Plan S favors commercial APCs > journals because they will comply with Plan S requirements which are not easy > for developing regions quality OA journals to comply with. https://theconversation.com/how-the-open-access-model-hurts-academics-in-poorer-countries-113856 _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
