Plan S funders embrace journal-free versions of peer review - Research Professional News
peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-07-08
Summary:
"Papers reviewed without publication in journals or on platforms deemed “of equivalent merit”
The Plan S open-access initiative has announced its support for newly emerging ways of producing research papers, in which peer review takes place independently from publication in journals or on platforms.
Plan S said on 6 July that most of its funders—who require the researchers they support to make resulting papers openly available immediately—will consider scholarly work that has been peer-reviewed without publication in a journal or on a platform to be of “equivalent merit and status” as papers published in these traditional venues...."