Open Access: Challenges and Opportunity

Effective 2021, the Plan S initiative is going to bring about a major shift in ways scholarly communication has been traditionally carried out. All public-funded research output are demanded to be openly available upon publication, with copyright owned by authors. Source

To prevent double-dipping from both subscription fee and Article Processing Charge (APC), funders, research institution, and libraries are finding the best way to efficiently allocate budget. One of the examples is negotiating transformative agreement with publishers. Source

With publications being openly accessible, funders, as well as institutions, are taking research outreach more seriously and are encouraging scholars to communicate their research better to harness social impact. Example

Challenges

Funding Agency
i) Structure an effective budget management system to balance between APC and subscription fee
ii) Design a standardize nationwide OA policy

Research Institution

i) Structure an effective budget management system to balance between APC and subscription fee
ii) Improve university branding through showcasing research impact
iii) Implement OA policy and educate researchers to be OA compliant

Researcher
i) Publish in OA compliant journals approved by funding agencies
ii) Engage in active outreach planning and execution to gather research impact
iii) Inaccurate mindset of just publishing in Scopus/WebofScience-indexed journals

Opportunity

Streamlining research workflow toward OA ecosystem

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