10.5281/zenodo.1478531
https://zenodo.org/records/1478531
oai:zenodo.org:1478531
Johnson, Rob
Rob
Johnson
0000-0001-7126-2954
Research Consulting
From coalition to commons: Plan S and the future of scholarly communication
Zenodo
2018
Open Access
OA
Scholarly Communication
Publishing
Plan S
Research Policy
2018-11-06
eng
10.5281/zenodo.1478530
https://zenodo.org/communities/researchconsulting
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
The announcement of Plan S in September 2018 has triggered a wide-ranging debate over how best to accelerate the shift to open access. The Plan’s ten principles represent a call for the creation of an intellectual commons, to be brought into being through collective action by funders and managed through regulated market mechanisms. As it gathers both momentum and critics, the coalition must grapple with questions of equity, efficiency and sustainability. The work of Elinor Ostrom has shown that successful management of the commons frequently relies on polycentricity and adaptive governance. The Plan S principles must therefore function as an overarching framework within which local actors retain some autonomy, and should remain open to amendment as the scholarly communication landscape evolves.
This is a preprint of the following article, which was published by UKSG Insights on 30 January 2019:
Johnson, Rob. 2019. “From Coalition to Commons: Plan S and the Future of Scholarly Communication”. Insights 32 (1): 5. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.453