Plan S Revised Implementation Guidelines welcomed
As noted in our response to the original implementation guidelines for Plan S, we remain fully supportive of the aim of Plan S – which is full and immediate open access to research.
We note that the Plan S Revised Guidelines are in alignment with the work that 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ and AOASG have been doing to support OA in this region, through institutional repositories and open access journals, capacity building and through a national approach to retaining rights.
We especially note the importance of support for a diversity of sustainable models for Open Access journals and platforms and furthermore that there is a need to change the research reward and incentive system in order to reward open scholarship practices.
We welcome the more realistic goal of 2021 for Plan S implementation. In the coming months we will consult with relevant stakeholders in this region to develop a plan for the further development of Open scholarship.
Download the media release (PDF, 31 May 2019)
For comment:
Margie Jantti, Chair of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, caul@caul.edu.au
Virginia Barbour, Director AOASG, eo@aoasg.org.au
About 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ is the peak leadership organisation for university libraries in Australia. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ members are the University Librarians or equivalent of the 39 institutions that have representation on Universities Australia and the 8 members of the Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL).
About AOASG
The AOASG is a coalition supported by seventeen universities in Australia and eight in New Zealand; Creative Commons Australia and Tohatoha, New Zealand are affiliate members. AOASG works to make Australasian research Open and FAIR and to promote innovation in all areas of scholarly communications.