Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S
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...
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| author | Jan Erik Frantsvåg Tormod Eismann Strømme |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-d9e9e8a5f8104bc0997f62388f237e832022-12-22T03:58:35ZengMDPI AGPublications2304-67752019-04-01722610.3390/publications7020026publications7020026Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan SJan Erik Frantsvåg0Tormod Eismann Strømme1The University Library of Tromsø, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 TROMSØ, NorwayUniversity of Bergen Library, University of Bergen, Bergen NO-5020, NorwayMuch 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/7/2/26Plan Sopen access journalsarticle processing charges (APC)technical requirementspublisher sizeDirectory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) |
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| title | Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S |
| title_full | Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S |
| title_fullStr | Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S |
| title_full_unstemmed | Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S |
| title_short | Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S |
| title_sort | few open access journals are compliant with plan s |
| topic | Plan S open access journals article processing charges (APC) technical requirements publisher size Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) |
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