Plan T: Scrap APCs and Fund Open Access with Submission Fees
« The announcement of Plan S by 11 European funding agencies has rocked the scholarly publishing community.
In a nutshell, these funders (and others that may join them) are banding together to impose Open Access (OA) publishing on their researchers. Most contentiously, the funders plan to cap the Article Processing Charges (APCs) that they are willing to cover, making it impossible for their researchers to publish in journals that charge relatively high amounts. On the journal side, those with APCs above the cap must either accept more (i.e., lower quality) articles or cut expenses by doing less review and editing. A CC BY license is required, and publishing an OA article in a hybrid journal is also apparently banned, such that these funders’ researchers are effectively unable to publish in over 85% of existing journals. (…) »
source > scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, Tim Vines, 20 septembre 2018
