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'''Plan S''' is an action plan of research funders to open up scientific publishing.

== Question ==

What are the impacts of plan S on availability of scientific information, research practices, and merit accumulation?

== Answer ==

No answer yet.

== Rationale ==

Possible ways to publish scientific results:
* Traditional closed peer-reviewed research articles.
* Open peer-reviewed research articles.
* Open preprints that are under peer criticism and may later be published as articles.
* Open preprints that are not under criticism.
* Knowledge crystals.
* Systematic literature reviews.
* Edited summaries of large topics, understandable also by researchers in other fields.
* Data with metadata but without interpretation.
* Wikipedia (not for original results).

Possible ways to produce merit in a scientific community.
* Publish articles in journals. Journals are ranked based on the assumed average merit of their articles.
* Participate in scientific societies and promote science that way.
* Publish patents and other forms of intellectual property.
* Teach at universities, to the public, or in expert hearings in decision processes.
* Participate in producing [[knowledge crystal]]s.
* Write successful research grants.
* Get evaluated by peers e.g. when professor positions are filled.
* Peer-review manuscripts of other researchers.

Possible ways to fund the publishing process.
* Journal subscriptions.
* Pey per article download.
* Pay when an article is accepted for publication.
* Research funders pay directly peer review, submitting and reading is free.
* Peer review is self-organised - no money involved.

Who organises the availability and archiving of the scientific material.
* Scientific publishers who have published the articles.
* University libraries for their own researchers.
* International repositories (e.g. ArXiv).


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