Plan S in Latin America: A precautionary note
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Ethical Issues, Legal Issues, Science and Medical Education, Science Policy
- Keywords
- Plan S, Latin America, Open Access, Open Knowledge, Scholarly publishing, Article Processing Charges, Non-commercial publishing, Scientific Journals, cOAlition S, Scientific digital repositories
- Copyright
- © 2019 Debat et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. Plan S in Latin America: A precautionary note. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27834v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27834v2
Abstract
Latin America has historically led a firm and rising Open Access movement and represents the worldwide region with larger adoption of Open Access practices. Argentina has recently expressed its commitment to join Plan S, an initiative from a European consortium of research funders oriented to mandate Open Access publishing of scientific outputs. Here we suggest that the potential adhesion of Argentina or other Latin American nations to Plan S, even in its recently revised version, ignores the reality and tradition of Latin American Open Access publishing, and has still to demonstrate that it will encourage at a regional and global level the advancement of non-commercial Open Access initiatives.
Author Comment
This minor revision of our manuscript incorporates changes prompted by a twitter exchange available at: https://twitter.com/Protohedgehog/status/1145963746910756865