‘‘Towards Responsible Publishing”: Findings from a global stakeholder consultation

"Research funders have the responsibility to make sure that their funding is used in ways that improve the scholarly publishing landscape for the benefit of the research community and society. The Towards Responsible Publishing proposal is therefore a logical next step for cOAlition S funders to help make the publishing system fit for the 21st century. It builds on Plan S and goes further in proposing a way to disseminate research that is not only more open, but also more trusted, equitable, efficient, and sustainable.

But, of course, funders cannot do it alone. For any changes to take hold, we need support from the scholarly community. To determine to what extent our proposal resonates with researchers, we commissioned Research Consulting and Leiden University's Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) to carry out an independent worldwide consultation about the proposal. This provided the opportunity for the community to examine, comment on, and add to the vision and principles we shared. This report presents the findings of that consultation: it shows an insightful picture of researchers’ attitudes towards innovative research practices, such as open access publishing, preprint posting, open peer review and the incentives needed to embrace these behaviours...."