OAEvolution: Trends in Open Access and Scholarly Communications - Scholarly Communications Lab | ScholCommLab

"uOttawa Library: How do you see the evolution of open access over the last 5 years?

SH: In the last year, Plan S has certainly shaken up academic publishing. A group of Research Funding and Research Performing Organizations in Europe introduced an ambitious roadmap to make all funded research outputs OA. The fact that Plan S does not allow hybrid OA has been seen by many as a (too) radical change. Since publishers make the scholarly community pay twice when they charge hybrid APCs for OA publication in subscription journals, I think it is a very convincing and very much needed regulation, considering that large publishing houses like Elsevier continue to make profits higher than Apple and Big Pharma on the shoulders of academia...."