The impact of open access publishing agreements at the University of Vienna in light of the Plan S requirements

25.11.2020

A review of current status, challenges and perspectives.

Mit 1.1.2021 tritt Plan S in Kraft. Um einfach und Plan S compliant Open Access publizieren zu können, wurden an der Uni Wien in den letzten Jahren zahlreiche Open-Access-Verlagsabkommen abgeschlossen. Eine diesbezügliche Bestandsaufnahme in Hinblick auf Plan S wurde soeben in UKSG "Insights" veröffentlicht.


Title: The Impact of Open Access Publishing Agreements at the University of Vienna in Light of the Plan S Requirements: A Review of Current Status, Challenges and Perspectives

Abstract: The University of Vienna, in partnership with other organisations across Austria, has been at the forefront of the open access (OA) movement in Europe and has been actively broadening the OA publishing opportunities for its researchers for well over half a decade. Although the launch of Plan S in September 2018 by a group of funding bodies that includes the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) brought its unique challenges, it has also provided the international research community with a much-needed impetus, jolting publishers into action and raising awareness among university administrators and faculty in general. The announcement also prompted the Vienna University Library to perform a mapping exercise, with a view to assessing how well the current publishing agreements match the needs of the University’s researchers in light of the Plan S requirements. This article presents the results of this analysis and shares some of the challenges encountered through the negotiation and implementation of OA publishing agreements and how these, together with the revised Plan S implementation guidelines, have been informing the University’s strategy.

>> Zum Beitrag: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.523


Pinhasi, Rita, Brigitte Kromp, Guido Blechl, and Lothar Hölbling. 2020. “The Impact of Open Access Publishing Agreements at the University of Vienna in Light of the Plan S Requirements: A Review of Current Status, Challenges and Perspectives”. Insights 33 (1): 26. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.523

Plan S-ready routes in 2020 – summary based on 2018 bibliographic data at the University of Vienna, CC BY 4.0, Pinhasi et al.