Plan S

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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?

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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 crystals.
• 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).