The HighWire community recently came together to identify and explore 14 implementation options for publishers and how they could deliver against the 10 principles as set out by cOAlition S. A whitepaper, published earlier this month, summarises the findings and details the four most preferred options. Jim Longo, VP of Product Leadership & Design at HighWire, considers what those four implementation options mean for publishers from a Product perspective.
In the whitepaper, a ‘HighWire View’ is presented for each of the four preferred implementation options. The Plan S whitepaper outlines the four alternative strategies to comply with the mandate, three of which require sophisticated platform features. Support for the fourth alternative, Stay the Course, for Now, is a gamble that makes even greater demands on their platform vendor than the first three present.
The four alternative strategies discussed in the whitepaper are: Use Green OA to comply; Deposit to an existing compliant server or repository; Post OA final author accepted manuscript; and Stay the Course, for Now.
Interested parties may download the whitepaper and watch a recording of HighWire Press’ recent webinar with its founding director, John Sack, who outlined the key outputs and his views on the findings: https://www.highwirepress.com/plans.
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