Plan U: A proposal to achieve universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates

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Summary:

"If all research funders required their grantees to post their manuscripts first on preprint servers — an approach we refer to as “Plan U” — the widespread desire to provide immediate free access to the world’s scientific output would be achieved with minimal effort and expense. As noted above, mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists have been relying on arXiv as their primary means of communication for decades. The biomedical sciences were slower to adopt preprinting, but bioRxiv is undergoing exponential growth and several million readers access articles on bioRxiv every month. Depositing preprints is thus increasingly common among scientists, and mandating it would simply accelerate adoption of a process many predict will become universal in the near future.

There is a precedent for mandating preprint deposition: since 2017, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has mandated that all grantees deposit preprints prior to or at submission for formal publication. This requirement has been accepted by CZI-funded investigators, many of whom were already routinely depositing manuscripts on bioRxiv...."

Link:

http://planu.org/

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oa.new oa.preprints oa.repositories oa.repositories.preprints oa.czi oa.peer_review oa.disciplines oa.arxiv oa.policies.funders oa.mandates oa.versions oa.policies oa.funders oa.plan_u

Date tagged:

01/29/2019, 13:51

Date published:

01/29/2019, 08:53