Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S

Jan Erik Frantsvåg and Tormod Eismann Strømme
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Jan Erik Frantsvåg: The University Library of Tromsø, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 TROMSØ, Norway
Tormod Eismann Strømme: University of Bergen Library, University of Bergen, Bergen NO-5020, Norway

Publications, 2019, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-18

Abstract: Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll-access journals open access, taking for granted that existing open access journals are Plan S-compliant. We suspected this was not so and set out to explore this using Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) metadata. We conclude that a large majority of open access journals are not Plan S-compliant, and that it is small publishers in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) not charging article processing charges (APC) that will face the largest challenge with becoming compliant. Plan S needs to give special considerations to smaller publishers and/or non-APC based journals.

Keywords: Plan S; open access journals; article processing charges (APC); technical requirements; publisher size; Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 D83 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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