Modification to Self-Archiving route processing order

[Richard Jones]

Release Announcement for 2022-03-06

The release changes how the Self-Archiving route is calculated. The check for whether the journal has been listed in the cOAlition S datasource of journals known to permit Self-Archiving, has been moved to occur before any check to OA.Works. This has a number of impacts:

• Self-Archiving route checks are now faster for journals which have indicated to cOAlition S that they will allow Self-Archiving, as no call to the external OA.Works API is required
• Journals on the cOAlition S list previously only appeared as Plan S compliant if the selected funder supported Rights Retention. This change modifies that so that any journal which has indicated they support Self-Archiving will appear as compliant, irrespective of the Rights Retention policy of the funder.