Plan S: Are the Concerns Warranted? — Meta-Research Center

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-02-14

Summary:

"Because of the low job security in the early stage of an academic career it is possible that early career researchers will be negatively affected by Plan S. Plan S currently involves 14 national funding agencies (including India that announced their participation on January 12th) and draws support from big private funds like the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Combined, these funds represent not more than 15% of the available research money in the world.

This relatively small market share could hurt young researchers dependent on Plan S funders as they will not be allowed to publish in some prestigious, but closed access journals. When researchers funded by other agencies can put these publications on their CV they would have an unfair advantage on the academic labour market. Only when Plan S or similar initiatives would cover a critical mass of the world’s research output would the playing field be levelled...."

 

Link:

https://metaresearch.nl/blog/2019/2/14/plan-s-are-the-concerns-warranted

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Date tagged:

02/14/2019, 13:57

Date published:

02/14/2019, 07:50