Author: Shaun Khoo
The Plan S Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) just sounds too good to be true. Anyone, whether mandated by their funder or not, can add a sentence or two to their article asserting a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) that will allow them to treat the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version of their paper as openly licensed. In cOAlition S’s framing, this “magic text” effectively transforms whatever version is accepted by the publisher into an openly licensed work, evading paywalls and embargoes alike, and providing free open access to articles while preserving authors’ “freedom to publish in their journal of choice”. Sadly, the way real life and real laws work, if it sounds too good to be true, it often is.
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