How is s implemented

Elements of implementation Provide model addenda to amend contracts to allow an open archive deposit without embargo for the final version of the manuscript accepted for publication or the published version if authorized the publisher. The terms of these amendments will have to be taken up and integrated into the consortium negotiations with publishers at national level by the Couperin consortium and by cOAlition S at European level.

Inform researchers and project leaders about open licenses and the implementation of amendments. Any publication resulting from research funded by the ANR and other agencies involved in cOAlition S must meet both following requirements at the same time: Quality peer reviewing and evaluation process; Open and permanent dissemination of its content.

Elements of implementation For open access journals A first minimum level of compliance should be provided for, as well as a second level meeting higher opening requirements. The minimum level of compliance includes the following elements: No requirement for exclusive assignment of rights by the author: this is in compliance with the provisions of Plan S point 1.

Scientific quality of the journal. This element is not specific to open access journals, but it is fundamental and must be emphasised. The scientific quality of the journal is assessed at the same time by: the quality of the proofreading and peer review process, the recognition of the journal in the discipline regardless of its impact factor , its actual and substantial editorial added value material and intellectual. Technical and editorial quality of the journal: this criterion can be verified, for example, by its indexing in the DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals.

However, it is important to ensure not to discriminate new journals that have not yet been referenced in the DOAJ. When publishing charges are paid, the cost breakdown of these charges must be transparent nature and quality of services — clear and accessible display — servicing scale. Open access policy to the scientific data on which the article is based link between the data and the publication. For open access platforms Open access repositories In the case of a deposit of the publication last version of the author manuscript accepted for publication at least in an open repository, the latter must provide the following services: immediate and free access to the text without prior registration by the reader, a permanent and legal archiving of the content, a technical configuration enabling open and interoperable data and metadata.

Elements of implementation Whether to promote the creation of new infrastructures, platforms and journals, to encourage their conversion to an open model or to support existing ones, the ANR, as a member of cOAlition S, should care to fulfil the exemplary criteria currently being prepared by the CoSO for the first half of , and established along the following lines: control by the scientific community, guarantees of transparency in terms of governance, organisation, costs and management, promoting quality and sustainability, registration in a legal form protecting them from a possible takeover, the preferential use of free software, the compliance with open standards and norms for data and metadata and the provision of open APIs.

It appears essential to require the transparency of publishing prices in order to relate the amounts requested to the services actually provided. For transparency to make sense, it is necessary to construct a scale of actual rates for services by discipline comprising evaluation processes, material editing and publishing costs acceptable to all. This scale must be developed with public publishers, learned societies and other stakeholders in open access publishing.

The CoSO is willing to contribute to this collective task. We recommend that the work on price transparency be coordinated at the level of the cOAlition S stakeholders and take the reality of the negotiations into account.

This study should be conducted with public publishers, learned societies and other stakeholders in open access publishing. We also recommend that we approach university presses to consider, by relying on their experience, the implementation of mechanisms for publishing books natively in open access and in a capacity of using alternative business models as defined by Operas white paper: Open Access Business Models , such as the Freemium model, collaborative library funding, etc.

Carry out a pilot project on books. It is particularly meaningful as: the fastest way to disseminate results, possibly before acceptance or publication; the breeding ground for many innovative projects, for example, in the field of overlay journals like Episciences, etc.

Along the same lines, we recommend that Plan S broaden the green OA option OA through repositories , to make it less onerous and more viable for researchers. In its current form, the Plan S green option is needlessly and even harmfully narrow and difficult. There are two good reasons to broaden the green road. First, green OA is a workable and inexpensive path to OA in all academic fields and regions of the world. Second, barriers to green OA put researchers, particularly early-career researchers, in an untenable situation.

A reasonable green OA option will let researchers publish where they must in order to advance their careers, and still satisfy their funders by making their work OA.

Without a reasonable green OA option, early-career researchers will be torn between the demands of their funders and the demands of their promotion and tenure committees. A good green OA option enables authors to submit new work to the journals of their choice, and thereby answers an objection based on academic freedom.

These goals need to ensure that there is the widest possible choice of publishing options on offer to researchers. Furthermore, in relation to APC business models, specifics such as the requirement for waiver policies, warrant deeper discussion: OASPA fully agrees that APCs should never present a barrier to publication, but there is a variety of approaches for addressing this issue by at present.

We recognise also that the focus of Plan S is on journal articles and that outlining a policy for open access books will take more time, but we encourage cOAlition S to engage with the open access book community to begin the development of an implementation plan for OA books, which is of particular importance in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Another key area for cOAlition S to consider and consult with stakeholders on is in making funds available for non-APC models, again of particular importance in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

APCs are by no means the only route to open access and a system for identifying and supporting other business models should be developed as Plan S takes shape. A healthy ecosystem will require emphasis on promoting the development of new business models in all disciplines. At OASPA we were pleased to see that the cOAlition S funders are keen to support the infrastructure around open access publishing in line with their vision. Our Spring Magazine is ready for your free download having been produced to coincide with the London Book Fair.

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