Authors
Pablo de Castro, Ulrich Herb, Laura Rothfritz, W. Benedikt Schmal, Joachim Schöpfel
- Pages
- 100
- Published in
- Germany
Table of Contents
- Pablo de Castro Ulrich Herb Laura Rothfritz 1
- W Benedikt Schmal Joachim Schöpfel 1
- CONTENTS 3
- Introduction 5
- Study results 6
- What Plan S got right and not so right 7
- Recommendations 8
- Recommendations for cOAlition S 8
- Recommendations for other stakeholders 8
- 1. METHODOLOGY 9
- 1.1. Quantitative analysis Counterfactual Impact Evaluation of Plan S 9
- 1.1.1. The open data requirement 9
- 1.1.2. Quantitative analysis data collection 10
- 1.2. Qualitative analysis 10
- 2. INTRODUCTION 12
- 2.1. A BIT OF HISTORY THE RUN-UP TO PLAN S 12
- 2.2. PLAN S ITS PRINCIPLES AND ITS POLICIES 2018- 2023 14
- 2.3. THE ROLE OF FUNDERS WITHIN THE SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS LANDSCAPE 16
- 2.4. THE IMPACT OF PLAN S ON A SPECIFIC NATIONAL OPEN ACCESS FRAMEWORK 19
- 3. COUNTERFACTUAL 21
- IMPACT EVALUATION OF PLAN S 21
- 3.1. CIE OVERVIEW 21
- 3.1.1. The difference-in-differences method 22
- 3.1.2. Establishing the timeframe for the analysis 22
- 3.1.3. Technical assumptions 23
- 3.1.4. Treatment control and comparison groups 23
- 3.1.5. Rationale for funder selection into the treatment and control groups 25
- 3.2. LIMITATIONS OF THE CIE STUDY 26
- 3.3. RESEARCH DESIGN 28
- 3.3.1. Data collection and grouping 28
- 3.3.2. Data preprocessing 30
- 3.4. CIE RESULTS 32
- 3.4.1. Pooled Comparisons 32
- 3.4.2. Pairwise Comparisons 34
- 3.4.3. Changes across Open Access models 38
- 3.5. CONCLUSIONS 39
- 4. QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS 42
- SOME PERSPECTIVES 42
- 4.1. TRANSFORMATIVE AGREEMENTS 42
- 4.2. RIGHTS RETENTION STRATEGY 47
- 4.3. FULLY GOLD OPEN ACCESS 51
- 4.3.1. APC-based Gold Open Access 51
- 4.3.2. Diamond Open Access 53
- 4.4. PARALLEL AREAS OF PRACTICE PREPRINTS. LONG- FORM PUBLICATIONS 58
- 4.4.1. Preprints 58
- 4.4.2. Long-form publications 59
- 4.5. THE IMPACT OF PLAN S BEYOND ITS STRICT AREA OF INFLUENCE OPEN ACCESS AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH 63
- 4.6. A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR RESEARCHERS 67
- 4.7. PUBLISHERS AND PLAN S 70
- 4.7.1. APC-based Gold OA and fully Open Access publishers 71
- 4.7.2. Hybrid Open Access publishers 72
- 4.7.3. Publishers and rights retention strategies 74
- 4.7.4. A word on book publishers 74
- 5. WHAT PLAN S GOT RIGHT 76
- AND NOT SO RIGHT 76
- 5.1. What Plan S and cOAlition S got right 76
- 5.2. What Plan S and cOAlition S did not get so right 77
- 6. RECOMMENDATIONS 79
- 7. ANNEXES 83
- ANNEX 1 OPEN BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA SOURCES 83
- ANNEX 2 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES AND OTHER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 85
- ANNEX 3 PLAN S OPEN ACCESS POLICY COMPLIANCE 87
- ANNEX 4 GLOSSARY 91