Tania Rabesandratana, Science; Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers?
""In the OA movement, it seems to a lot of people that you have to
choose a road: green or gold or diamond," says Colleen Campbell,
director of the OA2020 initiative at the Max Planck Digital Library in
Munich, Germany, referring to various styles of OA. "Publishers are
sitting back laughing at us while we argue about different shades"
instead of focusing on a shared goal of complete, immediate OA. Because
of its bold, stringent requirements, she and others think Plan S can
galvanize advocates to align their efforts to shake up the publishing
system...
"The combined weight of Europe and China is probably enough to move
the system," says astrophysicist Luke Drury, of the Dublin Institute for
Advanced Studies and the lead author of a cautiously supportive
response to Plan S by All European Academies, a federation of European
academies of sciences and humanities.
If Plan S does succeed in bringing about a fairer publishing system,
he says, a transition to worldwide OA is sure to follow. "Somebody has
to take the lead, and I'm pleased that it looks like it's coming from
Europe.""
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