Research-funders are required to pay the APCs so that the research they fund can be published in OA journals, and the funders can mandate that studies they enable only be published in such journals. With India set to join the Plan S coalition, this means the Government of India, through the Ministry of Finance and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), will pay to have Indian scientists’ papers published in OA journals. In turn, everyone in the world will be able to access publicly funded research from India, and vice versa. At the outset, Plan S’s participants want to set up a global commons of scientific knowledge. But the publishing scheme it proposes presents a distinct set of problems that, if not addressed, could capsize this Titanic reform of scientific publishing.
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