The first cOAlition S statement on open access for academic books, published on 2 September, uses significantly less authoritarian tone than the Plan S guidelines. Text: Anna-Mari Vesterinen (Helsinki University Press) & Hannu Linkola (Helsinki University Press) The cOAlition S recommendations can be found on the Plan S webpage. (Tämä artikkeli on saatavilla myös suomeksi.) The statement has now been published, and the accompanying recommendations reveal that the diversity of scholarly publishing has been considered more than in the Plan S guidelines. Since then, the academic world has waited for their statement on monographs and edited collections. Plan S, an initiative developed by major research funders, made the headlines when the funders’ requirement on open access publishing of research articles was pushed through with a time frame of only a few years.
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