What is it about?
Plan S is a an initiative by a group of national research funding organisations who would like the journal articles about the research they have funded to immediately be Open Access. While learned society publishers support open science and would like the journal articles they publish to be open to people all over the world, alignment with Plan S is a challenge to their existing business models. Transitional Models are promising way to overcome this issue, because libraries and library consortia currently provide the lion’s share of funding.If this revenue stream is transformed to support Open Access, then journals can also transform to be fully Open Access.
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Why is it important?
The pace of transition to Open Access is accelerating, and libraries and library consortia can play an important role in enabling learned society publishers (and other small and medium publishers) make this transition successfully.
Perspectives
Facilitating the discussions between learned society publishers and library consortia made us realise that there was the need for a toolkit. This toolkit should be freely available to library consortia and learned society publishers when negotiating transformative agreements. We made a kit available under a CC-BY licence on the ALPSP website and at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4561397.
Lorraine Estelle
Project COUNTER
The principles for transformative OA agreements crafted during this project were jointly designed by librarians, society publishers, and university presses. They contain commitments to cost-neutral transitions and to working together on entirely new pricing models.
Dr. Alicia Wise
Information Power Ltd
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This page is a summary of: How libraries can support society publishers to accelerate their transition to full and immediate OA and Plan S, Insights the UKSG journal, January 2019, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.1629/uksg.477.
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