Plan S: An Economist's Perspective

Mark Armstrong

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Many scholarly journals charge high prices to research libraries and generate high profits. Open access regulation, in its various forms, can mitigate this problem. This essay examines a particular policy, "Plan S", which aims broadly to require regulated authors to publish their research in open access journals, which among other drawbacks of the policy greatly limits their publishing options.

Keywords: Scholarly journals; open access; two-sided markets; regulation; Plan S (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D42 H41 I23 L13 L50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-05
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