Published on: 22/06/2020 - Updated on: 22/06/2020
The Plan S requirements for price transparency state “When Open Access publication fees are applied, they must be commensurate with the publication services delivered and the structure of such fees must be transparent” [Principle 5].
By operating a no-fee model, there is no Plan S requirement to make your pricing openly available. Such publishers may choose to make their pricing data available.
Published on: 19/05/2020 - Updated on: 02/06/2020
cOAlition S funders commit to the following for their grantees:
Published on: 19/05/2020 - Updated on: 02/06/2020
cOAlition S funders only financially supports the publication fees incurred by researchers benefitting from their own grants, and cannot commit to paying the publication fees of other researchers.
Published on: 19/05/2020 - Updated on: 02/06/2020
How the charge is divided is left to the discretion of the PI/researchers/institutions involved, in line with the rules of their funder.
Published on: 19/05/2020 - Updated on: 02/06/2020
Where a piece of research has been supported by several grants and possibly several funders, all of these should be acknowledged. How the charge is divided is left to the discretion of the PI/researchers/institutions involved, in line with the rules of their funder.
Published on: 19/05/2020 - Updated on: 04/06/2020
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Published on: 19/05/2020 - Updated on: 02/06/2020
cOAlition S supports a number of strategies to encourage subscription publishers to transition to Open Access. We call these approaches ’transformative arrangements’, for which there are currently three strategies: Transformative Agreements, Transformative Journals, and transformative model agreements.
Published on: 19/05/2020 - Updated on: 04/06/2020
Transformative agreements are those contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, moving from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services. (Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges, ESAC)