Subscription journals will let some Plan S funded researchers share accepted manuscripts under open licences. Subscription journals will let some Plan S funded researchers share accepted manuscripts under open licences.
By charging €9,500 to make research papers free to read, Nature journals have chosen to remain elite, exclusive and out of reach for most scientists in low- and middle-income countries
This report investigates the copyright retention policy amongst publishers, self-archiving policies and records publisher policies on open licensing, also as relating to the Plan S requirements on rights and licensing. It should be understood as a snapshot in time informing on the current policy status. It also provides policy development guidance to funders, institutions, publishers and their authors for positive change towards immediate OA.
Dear MDPI, Your journal publications have grown dramatically, and quite extraordinarily. But there are sceptics who suggest that this reflects low standards and distorting financial incentives. I was one of them. To prove my views I explored trends in publications of 140 journals for which data were available from 2015 onwards. But doing so proved…