Course Schedule LIVE ZOOM SESSION SCHEDULE (All times Pacific UTC-7)) Wednesday, July. 28 7 AM: Session 1 11 PM: REPEAT Session 1 Monday, Aug. 2 7 AM: Session 2 11 PM: REPEAT Session 2 Wednesday, Aug. 4 7 AM: Session 3 11PM: REPEAT: Session 3 W28 - Global Overview of the Scholarly Publishing Landscape: Differences Between the North and the South and Possible Consequences of Plan S Tom Olyhoek; Miho Funamori, Iryna Kuchma, Kathleen Shearer Abstract: 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. Collaborators and guest lecturers: Kathleen Shearer, COAR director Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager for EIFL Audience: Researchers, Librarians, Faculty/Scholars, Publishers, Administrators