Full and immediate Open Access: community-based scholarly communication system
cOAlition S – an international consortium of research funding and performing organisations, committed to making full and immediate Open Access a reality – is seeking input from the global research community on a proposal to establish a community-based scholarly communication system, fit for open science in the 21st century
Rapid advances
In 2018 cOAlition S launched Plan S, in which they state different principles which contribute to making full & immediate open access a reality. In the five years that have elapsed since the publication of the Plan S principles, the move towards full and immediate open access has become global and irreversible. However, academic publishing practices are not keeping up with rapid advances in the way science is performed, openly disseminated, and used. That is why cOAlition S published in October 2023 a new proposal to transform the scientific publishing landscape.
Support from research community
In this document cOAlition S proposes a vision and a set of principles that a future scholarly communication system should aspire to, along with a mission that enables research funders – in collaboration with other key stakeholders – to deliver this.
For such a scholar-led system to be successful, it will need broad support from the research community. To understand if the proposal resonates with the community of researchers, cOAlition S embarks on a consultation process, with support from Research Consulting
Limited in partnership with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS).
cOAlition S offers researchers the opportunity to voice their opinions and contribute to the development of a proposal that serves their needs. The consultation period will run from November 2023 until April 2024. Based on the feedback through this consultation, a revised proposal will be developed for the cOAlition S funders to consider in June 2024.
What can you do now?
The first step of the consultation is filling in the survey which will remain open until Wednesday 29 November 2023 at 23.59 CET.