Title: Global Overview of the Scholarly Publishing Landscape: Differences Between the North and the South and Possible Consequences of Plan S Short title: Is Plan S beneficial on the Fight for Global Open Access? Instructors: Tom Olyhoek, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Directory of Open Access Journals; https://doaj.org/about, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5433-5944 Ivonne Lujano, DOAJ Ambassador for Latin America; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4245-8872 Miho Funamori, Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan; https://researchmap.jp/funamori/?lang=english Description: This course will focus on the publisher-dominated scholarly publishing system in the North – subscription and open access, maintained by publisher-controlled metrics and ranking – versus the community-controlled open access publishing system in Latin America and the society-based subscription system and governmental infrastructures in Japan and other Asian countries. Publishing in Africa is much less developed, but we will discuss steps that have been taken there toward a community-controlled infrastructure. The various indexing services that provide lists of quality journals will be compared and discussed. To take the discussion of scholarly publishing systems to the next level, we will highlight “Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action,” which calls on the community to make concerted efforts to develop strong, community-governed infrastructures that support diversity in scholarly communications (referred to as bibliodiversity). We will examine whether the Call for Action can stop the dominance of a handful of Northern publishers. In the part of the course on Plan S, we will examine the role that Read and Publish agreements between publishers and governments or institutes play in the transformation to a 100 percent open access publishing system. We will also emphasize the inherent dangers of Plan S-linked transformative agreements, and the price/transparency rules for APC and no-APC journals, which are meant to be a feasible way to help journals flip to open access, but which may eventually lead to a costly global open access publishing system with very high article processing charges replacing an expensive subscription system that produced profit margins of over 35 percent. Finally, we will present reasons why we think that adoption of Plan S guidelines in the North and other areas of the world, notably Latin America and Japan, may lead to a global publishing market again dominated by a handful of Northern publishers who will continue to make very high profits. =============================================================== **Syllabus :Details** Wednesday 5-8 - Presentation 1: Short intro on publishing systems worldwide (Ivonne) 5’ -Presentation 2: Evaluation systems and compare indexing Services (Tom) 15’-Q&A 5’-Group activity: Discuss the different publishing systems by participant’s country. (30min)-Introductions of participants-Guiding questions-Report back 10’ -Presentation 3: New developments in quality assessment on researchers (Miho) 15’-Issues of research assessments and new developments-DORA, Leiden, Altmetrics, local context-Research assessment at various levels and possible change agents-Q&A 5’-Group activity: 20’-Discuss who should be the change agent of research assessment in the digital age?-How should the research assessment change?-Report back 10’-Wrap up 5’ Monday 10 - 8-Presentation 4: Plan S Overview (Tom) 15’-Q&A 10’-Presentation 5a: Selected issues of Plan S and transformative agreements (Miho) 15’-Presentation 5b: Regional cases (Latin America, EU) (Ivonne - Iryna?) 20’-Q&A 10’-Group Activity: Discuss PlanS consequences in different regions of the world 30’-Breakout rooms groups of students from different regions of the world-What is the state of Plan S in your country? What impact would Plan S haveon your country?-What transformative agreements do you see in your country? How do they relate with Plan S? What are the pros and cons of transformative agreements?-Report back 10’-Wrap up 10’ Wednesday 12-8- Presentation 6: Concept of Bibliodiversity and the Call for action (Kathleen Shearer) 20’-Plenary discussion: The goal of bibliodiversity and how it can be measured 20’-Wrap up : Discussion and feedback ‘20-What did you learn-What did you miss ***ZOOM LINKS TO SESSIONS*** Topic: W27 Session 1 Time: Aug 5, 2020 08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97620935801?pwd=ZnQrU3hDUmN3elZpaVZZemtLYWdIdz09 Meeting ID: 976 2093 5801 Passcode: 392935 One tap mobile +16699006833,,97620935801#,,,,,,0#,,392935# US (San Jose) +13462487799,,97620935801#,,,,,,0#,,392935# US (Houston) Topic: W27 Session 1 Repeated Time: Aug 5, 2020 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99971178204?pwd=eHJPdXNGa1RZdFlyclJ2aXZsVDZpZz09 Meeting ID: 999 7117 8204 Passcode: 321414 One tap mobile +16699006833,,99971178204#,,,,,,0#,,321414# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,99971178204#,,,,,,0#,,321414# US (Tacoma) Topic: W27 Session 2 Time: Aug 10, 2020 08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99989135608?pwd=K3gxT053Rk9PcHY4NjBjQnNIL0ZPZz09 Meeting ID: 999 8913 5608 Passcode: 849508 One tap mobile +16699006833,,99989135608#,,,,,,0#,,849508# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,99989135608#,,,,,,0#,,849508# US (Tacoma) Topic: W27 Session 2 Repeated Time: Aug 10, 2020 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99744327722?pwd=SXBPckl6S0V4TzVZdUl1SXJCblI5Zz09 Meeting ID: 997 4432 7722 Passcode: 102722 One tap mobile +16699006833,,99744327722#,,,,,,0#,,102722# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,99744327722#,,,,,,0#,,102722# US (Tacoma) Topic: W27 Session 3 Time: Aug 12, 2020 08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93000154478?pwd=UVo3Qy9WaUo1bTJYWVNpTmRNeGRpQT09 Meeting ID: 930 0015 4478 Passcode: 601907 One tap mobile +16699006833,,93000154478#,,,,,,0#,,601907# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,93000154478#,,,,,,0#,,601907# US (Tacoma) Topic: W27 Session 3 Repeated Time: Aug 12, 2020 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99396325593?pwd=SWdFUXFhY1FmeUczeEdDRkgrTzNDUT09 Meeting ID: 993 9632 5593 Passcode: 946009 One tap mobile +16699006833,,99396325593#,,,,,,0#,,946009# US (San Jose) +13462487799,,99396325593#,,,,,,0#,,946009# US (Houston)