a note about AAAS changing their OA policy

[Mel DeSart]

Forwarded from another list from late last week.

 

 

HI Folks,

 

Just wanted to flag a small but interesting development for you. This morning, AAAS, the publisher of Science and five other journals, has announced an update to its Open Access policy.  The publisher will now permit authors funded by cOAlition S funders to place a CC-BY or CC-BY-ND license on their accepted manuscripts to facilitate compliance with Plan S author rights retention policy.

 

Most notably: their announcement  (link below) stresses that are supportive of Green OA, and have deep concerns over the inequities inherent in the APC system.  There are no fees associated with this policy change, and AAAS says they are doing this on a trial basis beginning this month.

 

Full text of the announcement is here:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/aaft-foa011421.php

 

 

Mel

 

[Lisa Hinchliffe]

I think it is important to include that they have done this only for authors with funders that have adopted the RRS. None others ... even if they are Plan S funder funded. (If you are now curious which have/have not adopted the RRS, see: https://www.coalition-s.org/plan-s-funders-implementation/.) 

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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
lisali...@gmail.com

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