Rick Anderson, The Scholarly Kitchen; Do You Have Concerns about Plan S? Then You Must be an Irresponsible, Privileged, Conspiratorial Hypocrite
"Ultimately, though, what is most concerning about Plan S is not the
behavior of those hell-bent on defending it by any means necessary.
That’s just par for the course.
More important is the way in which researchers themselves — the people
whose work and whose freedom to choose will be directly affected by its
implementation — seem to have been excluded from the process of
formulating it. This shouldn’t be surprising, I guess, given the disdain
in which authors and researchers are apparently held by Plan S’s
creators. After all, as Science Europe’s Robert-Jan Smits puts it: “Why do we need Plan S? Because researchers are irresponsible.”
There you have it. The freedom to choose how to publish isn’t for
everyone; it’s only for those who are “responsible” — which is to say,
those who agree with Plan S."
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