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Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S

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  • Jan Erik Frantsvåg

    (The University Library of Tromsø, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 TROMSØ, Norway)

  • Tormod Eismann Strømme

    (University of Bergen Library, University of Bergen, Bergen NO-5020, Norway)

Abstract

Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll-access journals open access, taking for granted that existing open access journals are Plan S-compliant. We suspected this was not so and set out to explore this using Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) metadata. We conclude that a large majority of open access journals are not Plan S-compliant, and that it is small publishers in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) not charging article processing charges (APC) that will face the largest challenge with becoming compliant. Plan S needs to give special considerations to smaller publishers and/or non-APC based journals.

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  • Jan Erik Frantsvåg & Tormod Eismann Strømme, 2019. "Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S," Publications, MDPI, vol. 7(2), pages 1-18, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jpubli:v:7:y:2019:i:2:p:26-:d:221229
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    2. Holly Else, 2018. "Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions," Nature, Nature, vol. 561(7721), pages 17-18, September.
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