The new plan wants all versions of an article and its associated peer-review reports to be published openly from the outset, without authors paying any fees, and for authors, rather than publishers, to decide when and where to first publish their work.
@brembs@serhii it would actually be a radical change to how science publishing works, so the word is accurate. You seem to be mistaking the news reporting from the journal publisher …
@richvn@brembs I'm more concerned that: "Costs would be covered by a mixture of organizations, including libraries, funders, governments and universities". Open access was supposed to help narrow the gap between researchers from developed and poor countries. First the transformational agreements, and now another initiative by cOAlition S, which may leave researchers from developing countries unable to find a place in this brave new world of responsible academic publishing. 😕
@serhii@brembs TAs were just a step to avoid NDAs in agreements, where institutions from poor countries paid often more for subscriptions than much richer 'western' institutions. It was Gerard Meijer, who uncovered nefarious practices of commercial publishers (first working in Nijmenegen, and then in Max Plank and for DEAL). Now, we've got a logical consequence of Plan S implementation, as stage 2.
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