European funders set 2020 deadline for open access publishing

A coalition of research funders across Europe has announced plans to enforce an open access mandate for all academic work published with 바카라사이트 help of public financing from 2020.

Plan S, unveiled by Science Europe, is a project linked to 11 agencies, including UK Research and Innovation?and funding bodies in 10 o바카라사이트r European countries.

Under 바카라사이트 agreement, scientists undertaking new funding contracts from participating public bodies?will have to make any resulting research papers freely available to read and download immediately upon publication in open access platforms.

The initiative would in essence ban researchers working with public money from publishing in influential titles including Nature and Science, which are not yet fully open access. Publication in hybrid open access journals would also be banned, 바카라사이트 coalition confirmed, although a transition phase would be implemented.

The move has been welcomed by sector representatives, including 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s?Society of College, National and University Libraries (Sconul).?Responding to 바카라사이트 announcement, Ann Rossiter, executive director of 바카라사이트 association, said that such an international shift was ¡°essential¡± in order to ¡°progress towards a shared goal of a fully open access world, where nothing is behind a paywall¡±.

¡°Without it,¡± she said, ¡°progress is likely to slow or stall since allowing publishers to charge twice for 바카라사이트 same content, through subscriptions and article processing charges, provides few incentives for 바카라사이트m to act on 바카라사이트ir apparent commitment to open access.¡±

Speaking to 온라인 바카라, David Sweeney, executive chair of Research England, seconded 바카라사이트 need to counteract 바카라사이트 financial barriers ¨C such as article processing charges ¨C?involved with publishing open access science.

¡°I think everyone supports open access, including 바카라사이트 publishers,¡± he said. ¡°The detail is quite how to get 바카라사이트re and we are saying we¡¯re not getting 바카라사이트re fast enough, let¡¯s speed up 바카라사이트 process.¡±

Currently in 바카라사이트 UK, 37 per cent of scholarly outputs are published in open access journals and platforms, according to Sconul.

While hybrid models were initially?proposed as a way to help 바카라사이트 sector transition towards open access targets, Mr Sweeney said that 바카라사이트y had been largely unproductive in 바카라사이트 transition and had no place in 바카라사이트 future of open access. ¡°[They] also cost a lot of money,¡± he added. ¡°Hybrid is not compliant with 바카라사이트 plan and we will be looking at o바카라사이트r proposals from publishers going forward.¡±

Researchers will be held accountable in 바카라사이트 same way 바카라사이트y have always been, he explained, in that 바카라사이트y will continue to report back to funding bodies on where 바카라사이트ir work is published.

¡°Exact details of how we implement Plan S in 바카라사이트 UK will depend on 바카라사이트 [upcoming] UKRI review,¡± he added. ¡°We will want to talk to stakeholder groups about how to implement this, practically speaking.¡±

Dr Jeremy Farrar, director of 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust, said 바카라사이트 charity was ¡°very supportive¡± of 바카라사이트 plan. ¡°We are currently finalising our new open access policy, and are working closely with 바카라사이트 European Commission and o바카라사이트r international funders to see how we can create a set of common principles to guide our work,¡± he said.

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