Plan S and the 'opening up' of scientific knowledge: A critical commentary

Main author: Istratii, Romina
Other authors: Demeter, Márton
Format: Journal Article           
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institution SOAS, University of London
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language English
language_search English
description Plan S is a an initiative that aims at ‘opening up’ access to scientific knowledge by ensuring immediate and cost-free (for the reader) access to scientific knowledge under specified Open Access (OA) principles. While the initiative is guided by evidently good intentions to overcome current obstacles that restrict the quick publication, dissemination and reproduction of scientific research, it is not only informed primarily by a natural sciences perspective, neglecting the humanities and social sciences, but also it does not appear to consider or address the more profound structural inequalities in knowledge production across the world. The essay aims to problematise some of these less often pronounced asymmetries in an effort to shift the attentionof OA advocates to more urgent issues and to evidence the necessity for more subversive remedial strategies.
format Journal Article
author Istratii, Romina
author_facet Istratii, Romina
Demeter, Márton
authorStr Istratii, Romina
author_letter Istratii, Romina
author2 Demeter, Márton
author2Str Demeter, Márton
title Plan S and the 'opening up' of scientific knowledge: A critical commentary
publisher Decolonial Subversions
publishDate 2020
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32525/