Open Access journal publishing debates – the elephant in the room? | Henry Rzepa

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-11-04

Summary:

"So I again repeat my assertion that focussing on whether an article is OA or not and whether publishing in hybrid journals is to be allowed or not by funders is missing that 100-fold bigger elephant in the room. For me, a publishing model that is fit for the future should include as a top priority a declaration of whether the data associated with it is FAIR. Thus in the Plan-S ten principles, FAIR is not mentioned at all. Only when FAIR-enabled data becomes part of the debates can we truly say that the article and its data are on its way to being properly open access...."

Link:

https://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=20342

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Tags:

oa.new oa.debates oa.fair oa.data oa.principles oa.plan_s oa.chemistry

Date tagged:

11/04/2018, 10:38

Date published:

11/04/2018, 05:38