Response from the Royal Musical Association to the cOAlition S Implementation Guidance on Plan S

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Summary:

"At present it is estimated that across all scholarly and scientific disciplines, cOAlition S signatory funded research results in the production of <8% global published outputs and that wholesale changes within current business models are likely only once that funder base increases substantially. In the meantime, a mixture of models will need to continue to exist.

Nonetheless, the Royal Musical Association has recently taken active steps, through the re‐negotiation of its contract to publish its journals to ensure that for research published in RMA journals from 2020 onwards authors will retain copyright, and outputs can either be made immediate OA (hybrid) or can be self‐ archived with a zero‐month embargo.

As they stand, the Implementation Guidelines present issues which may render RMA outputs non‐compliant with Plan S aims, reversing a trend with this learned society which seeks to support and enable OA for its publications. At worst we fear that this may result in the perpetuation of the subscription model – and limit funding available for exploring new publishing business models, particularly models which would support learned societies such as ours. They also risk alienating a scholarly community which is relatively new to OA and, for the RMA, is now actively engaging with OA. The suggestions below offer some proposals to address those issues and concerns...."

Link:

https://www.rma.ac.uk/rmawp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RMA_Plan_S_and_UKRI_response.pdf

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oa.new oa.plan_s oa.uk oa.societies oa.music oa.arts oa.humanities oa.gold oa.business_models oa.ssh oa.journals

Date tagged:

02/10/2019, 10:38

Date published:

02/10/2019, 05:38