Date:  Wed, 17 Oct 2018 01:14:32 -0400

This is the best short article I have yet read explaining what Plan S is all about and how it challenges traditional publishing models in a radical way.  I can't help wondering when Plan S enthusiasts will start turning their attention to scholarly monographs.

Meanwhile, I have added these comments to the article:

Smits expresses concern for nonprofit society publishers. I wonder if he is concerned also about nonprofit university presses, which will surely be affected by Plan S, especially if it begins to be applied to HSS fields and not just STEM fields.

One unintended consequence of Plan S might be to drive faculty to turn to their universities more for APC support than they already do, so as to preserve their freedom to publish wherever they feel will most advance their careers? This would, ironically perhaps, burden academic libraries even more because they are usually where university administrators turn to fund APC subsidies while these libraries would continue to have to subscribe to the prestigious journals that do not go along with Plan S.  Better be careful about what you wish for!

Sandy Thatcher

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 05:18 PM LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >

>From: Ann Shumelda Okerson [log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:36:14 -0400
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>Any guesses about what the US will do to respond to Mr. Smits' visit?
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>Physics Today, October 11, 2018
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>"Publishers of scientific journals are facing renewed threats to their >business models from both sides of the Atlantic. As European science >funders promote a radical new open-access (OA) publishing mandate they >unveiled last month, the Trump administration is considering changes >to a five-year-old directive governing the public release of research >literature sponsored by federal agencies."
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>https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20181011a/full/#.W8U3JSqvkCo.twitter