Plan S, self‐publishing, and addressing unreasonable risks of society publishing - Vuong - 2020 - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online Library

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-01-16

Summary:

"Key points

 

  • Societies face increasing pressure to contain costs and retain revenues, which are threatened by open access mandates.
  • Funders and other science publishing campaigns need to recognize the value of learned societies and work with them to sustain the production of quality knowledge.
  • Self‐publishing via preprint servers may threaten the quality of academic research.
  • Societies can reinforce their value proposition through a model of academic entrepreneurship, including research activities, media engagement, and consultancy...."

Link:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/leap.1274

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Tags:

oa.new oa.societies oa.risks oa.plan_s oa.objections oa.debates

Date tagged:

01/16/2020, 10:05

Date published:

01/16/2020, 05:05