What is the status of Plan S after all ? | Ouvertures immédiates / Immediate openings
peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-01-07
Summary:
"Plan S is not a law. It is even less a European directive waiting to be transposed into national or federal law.
Plan S is a pledge made by and among funders together in a group called cOAlition S, in order to harmonise the criteria they want to use to evaluate research proposals from January 2020 on. They are committing themselves to abide by the rules of Plan S when assessing the research they fund.
For this reason, all discussions on Plan S should avoid any confusion with a legal constraint. ..."