Plan S A Global perspective November 2019 Sybille

Plan S- A Global perspective November 2019 Sybille Geisenheyner 1

To advance excellence in the chemical sciences 2

Open Access policy Plan S A plan released in September 2018 by a coalition of research funding organisations (c. OAlition S) to speed up the transition to 100% open access by requiring publication in venues/journals that are fully OA or that allow immediate self-archiving in repositories with zero embargo Plan S principles and implementation guidelines were updated in May 2019 https: //www. coalition-s. org/ 3

Who is involved? 4

Response to Plan S from Academic Researchers: Unethical, Too Risky! 1784 scientists protested against Plan S. Lynn Kamerlin and her coauthors worry that Plan S will deprive them of quality journal venues and of international collaborative opportunities, while disadvantaging scientists whose research budgets preclude paying and playing in this OA league. They offer instead their own suggestions how to implement Open Science. https: //sites. google. com/view/plansopenletter/home 5

c. OAlition S started a revision of the plan Over 800 institutions, funders, researchers from all over the world respondet when asked for feedback about Plan S. 6

Plan S before & after 7

September 2018 May 2019 8

RSC policy positon Feb ’ 19 Before revision The RSC supports many of the principles outlined in Plan S and recognizes that it has the potential to accelerate move to OA: • Implementation needs to be pragmatic, and should not increase the workload of individual researchers • Roll-out needs to be part of a global transition (science is global), and allow time for consultation and agreement to be reached (researchers, funders, institutions, learned societies and publishers) • Appropriate support must be in place to ensure researchers everywhere can publish OA in high quality journals • Implementation must ensure the vitality of learned societies as providers of knowledge, services and support for the scholarship of their discipline 9

Positive and negative impacts most often mentioned when we asked researchers what impact Plan S might have on their work and career Positive Negative • Greater accessibility (for me) to published research • Greater visibility for me as researcher • Further positive change in research culture • Greater accessibility for general public • • Impact on cost of publishing (for me) Limitations in publication venues Impact on international collaboration Cost of publishing for poorer institutions / countries • Impact on quality of peer review / publications 10

Plan S What’s next? The RSC will continue to amplify the voice of researchers on Plan S over the coming weeks and months • Feedback received from researchers via the survey coupled to the Plan S animation, and via the livestream debate, will further inform our policy position that is under the process of being revised in this context • Our revised policy position will inform our input to the upcoming UKRI open access review • We will continue to use our communication channels to share our key messages and policy position 11

Read & Publish 12

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Questions? 14