Plan S:take Latin America´s long experience on board

Debat, Humberto and Babini, Dominique Plan S:take Latin America´s long experience on board., 2019 UNSPECIFIED. [Other]

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Letter to the editors of "Nature" journal: We share the spirit of Plan S to achieve full open access to scholarly publications (see go.nature.com/2hszsaf), but we disagree with its implementation guidelines. The plan’s design ignores more than 20 years of widespread experience in open-access publishing in many developing nations, as well as Latin America’s widespread ethos of free-to-publish and free-to-read research. To rectify this, the Plan S guidelines need to tackle the long-standing issues of conventional scholarly publishing, including the high concentration of articles in commercial publications. Funders should promote open-access practices that are more globally inclusive, while improving the quality of editorial processes and keeping their control within the scientific community. Plan S has yet to demonstrate that it will also support the advancement of non-commercial open-access initiatives. We call for discussions to commit leading institutions and funders to global publishing that is more community-based and not commercial. Latin America should postpone any adhesion to Plan S until it can be sure that it will not be detrimental to less-privileged researchers, countries and institutions. (See also H. Debat and D. Babini PeerJ Preprints 7, e27834v2; 2019.) Nature 573, 495 (2019) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02857-1

Item type:	Other
Keywords:	open access, Plan S, Coalition S, scholarly communications
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy
Depositing user:	Dra. Dominique Babini
Date deposited:	15 Feb 2021 23:05
Last modified:	15 Feb 2021 23:05
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/40956

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