Europe has a plan to force academic publishers to make research free to read

Vrushali Dandawate Bookmark 2018-09-25

Summary:

"The clumsily named cOAlition S (“OA” is for “open access.” The “S” for science, or solution) is a group of science funding agencies from 11 European countries. Altogether, these funders — which include UK Research and Innovation and the Research Council of Norway — spend $8.8 billion per year on grants to scientists for their research. That big financial footprint gives them some power to stipulate conditions for accepting the grant money.

Here’s what they want: By 2020, these funders will mandate that anyone who gets money from them must publish their results in a journal without a paywall. Private funders, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, already stipulate any papers that come from their grants must be open access. The cOAlition S is following their lead.

Currently, some journals make articles open access after a period of some months after publication. (Studies funded by the NIH, which spends about $30 billion on grants a year, are currently released to the public in this delayed manner.) But the cOAlition S won’t stand for this either. The studies, their declaration states, “cannot be monetized in any way.” ..."

Link:

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/24/17875528/coalition-s-plan-academic-paywalls-europe

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Tags:

oa.new oa.europe oa.publishing oa.plan_s oa.mandates oa.policies

Authors:

Brian Resnick

Date tagged:

09/25/2018, 06:34

Date published:

09/25/2018, 05:09