« Research Consulting and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) were commissioned to determine to what extent the vision, mission and objectives set out in the TRP proposal serve the needs of the global research community. Through a consultative approach, we sought to…
« Since September 2023, cOAlition S, in partnership with Jisc and PLOS, have been working with a multi-stakeholder working group to identify business models and arrangements that enable equitable participation in knowledge-sharing for the benefit of science and society. Comprising librarians, library consortia representatives, funders and publishers, the…
« Une étude demandée par la cOAlition S concernant l’impact du plan S sur la communication scientifique a été l’occasion de tester la qualité de deux types d’échantillons de données bibliométriques : l’un provenant des éditeurs commerciaux (Elsevier et Clarivate) et l’autre provenant de sources…
« With the advancement of open science, the reliability of open bibliometric data providers compared with proprietary providers is becoming a topic of increasing importance. Proprietary providers such as Scopus, SciVal, and Web of Science have been criticised for their profit-oriented nature, their opaqueness, and lack of…
« The Journal Comparison Service has been developed by cOAlition S to shed light on publishing fees and services. It enables those who procure publishing services to better understand how journals and publishers compare on a range of key indicators.
In this blog post, we provide an…
« (…) In our draft proposal, we propose a vision and a set of principles that a future scholarly communication system should aspire to, along with a mission that enables research funders – in collaboration with other key stakeholders – to deliver this.
For such a scholar-led system to be…
« Forte de ses 5 ans d’expérience sur le plan S, la cOAlition S considère qu’il est temps d’aller plus loin pour restaurer un système de communication scientifique efficace, abordable, équitable et responsable. Elle a ainsi publié, le 31 octobre 2023, une ébauche de projet…
« The purpose of this survey is to capture early feedback from the scholarly community on cOAlition S’s « Towards Responsible Publishing » proposal. The proposal, which is available via Zenodo, seeks to facilitate the transition to an open, scholar-led communication ecosystem fit for the 21st century. The information…
« To mark the 5th anniversary of Plan S, cOAlition S hosted a webinar on Thursday, 2nd November 2023 (…) The webinar brought together funders, researchers, and experts from the scholarly communication field to discuss how Plan S has developed since its launch as well as what lies ahead for the…
« The group behind the radical open-access initiative Plan S has announced its next big plan to shake up research publishing — and this one could be bolder than the first. It wants all versions of an article and its associated peer-review reports to be published openly from the outset, without…
