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Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant

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17 January 2019

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17 January 2019

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Abstract
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 DOAJ's journal metadata. We conclude that an overwhelmingly large majority of open access journals are not Plan S compliant, and that it is small HSS publishers not charging APCs that are least compliant and will face major challenges with becoming compliant. Plan S need to give special considerations to smaller publishers and/or non-APC-based journals.
Keywords: 
Plan S; open access journals; APC; technical requirements; publisher size
Subject: 
Social Sciences  -   Library and Information Sciences
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