An Interview With the Plan S Implementation Committee's David Sweeney

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-03-21

Summary:

"Publishing Perspectives asked if it’s a fair comment to say that the demand by Plan S that publishers “open their books” to potential vendors can seem rather aggressive.

“It’s a widespread practice in public procurement issues,” Sweeney said, “to ask vendors to disclose their costs so that you can have something with which to start discussing price. This practice is something that public funders do.” ...

“We recognize that we can’t abrogate existing contracts that are in place and there are lots of contacts that are being signed now which cannot just be turned over. I fail to see that it’s quite the tight time scale that people make it out to be.

“My question for those who say it’s too tight a time scale,” he said, “is how long do you want? Given that we’re now talking about implementing principles which were agreed many years ago and that were then set out in transitional models. I don’t remember going back to scratch and resetting this clock for Plan S. We’re imposing the same open access guidelines that we’ve been working on for many years.” ...

The argument that just because a scientist publishes in Nature, he or she should have to pay more for the brand value is not, I think, a line we want to take...."

Link:

https://publishingperspectives.com/2019/03/research-england-an-interview-with-the-plan-s-implementation-committees-david-sweeney/

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Date tagged:

03/21/2019, 15:59

Date published:

03/21/2019, 11:59