Plan S Briefing Presentations
I thought it might be useful for the research community in Ireland and beyond to share the slides for the presentations used on Tuesday’s Briefing on Plan S for Open Access.
Here are the five main presentations (shared here with permission from the Royal Irish Academy):
Don’t forget that the deadline for submission of feedback on the Plan S proposals is February 8th 2019!
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In the Dark 
January 24, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Publishers have introduced inflated APCs in order to maintain revenues, but the difference is that researchers now see directly how much they are being stung so there’s a hope that they will recoil from it.
January 24, 2019 at 3:29 pm
It’s not clear where the money will come from, and it will probably vary in different countries, but researchers will definitely be aware of how much it is costing.
January 24, 2019 at 3:41 pm
Added value compared to what? Open Access publications get higher citation rates, for one thing. But if Plan S does its job it will mandate researchers to publish in this mode.
Then they will have the choice to decide whether to blow $4000 dollars from their grant on an APC Gold Publication or go the sensible Green route and go to a couple of conferences or buy new computers or…
January 24, 2019 at 5:00 pm
The publishers may be trying to hijack it, but I don’t think they’re going to succeed.