{"id":25981,"date":"2018-10-03T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T08:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.journals.cambridge.org\/?p=25981"},"modified":"2018-10-15T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T11:01:11","slug":"public-statement-on-plan-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/public-statement-on-plan-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Statement on Plan S"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Cambridge University Press exists to advance knowledge, learning and research. As part of our purpose, we disseminate high-quality research and drive its impact and reach, working with the academic communities we support. We fully endorse the benefits of open research and recognize the recent announcements about Plan S as an important contribution to the conversation about the ongoing transition.<\/p>\n<p>There is a wide range of views about how to move forward with open research across different parts of the global academic community, which means the debate about how it should develop needs a process of wide consultation, as happened with the UK\u2019s Finch report on open access <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acu.ac.uk\/research-information-network\/finch-report-final\">six<\/a> years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We believe there are a number of specific developments which could help open research and its longer-term sustainability, including areas we have been working on such as:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wider adoption of new business models which have been put in place in some countries, particularly models allowing APC-free open access including read-and-publish deals;<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Improvements to the hybrid journal model to support academic communities where a full transition to open access isn\u2019t yet possible;<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A community standard for a fair and\u00a0balanced\u00a0Green OA policy, with publishers supporting institutions to meet funders\u2019 open access requirements;<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0 Ensuring academic freedom for researchers about where they can publish.<\/p>\n<p>We are committed to playing a positive role in the development of open research, working in conjunction with our communities of researchers, institutions, learned societies and their funders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge University Press exists to advance knowledge, learning and research. As part of our purpose, we disseminate high-quality research and drive its impact and reach, working with the academic communities we support. We fully endorse the benefits of open research and recognize the recent announcements about Plan S as an important contribution to the conversation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":25989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2255,6,8,2251,1,4955,9,7],"tags":[46,45,4733,4836],"coauthors":[2699],"class_list":["post-25981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine-health-science","category-humanities","category-law","category-librarians","category-news","category-open-research","category-science-technology","category-social-sciences","tag-oa","tag-open-access","tag-open-research","tag-or"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25981"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}