The Plan S open access initiative creates more opportunities than threats for Latin America

Concerns about the threat from the Global North to Latin America’s exemplary tradition of open access publishing are understandable but ultimately misplaced. Renegotiation of subscription agreements and the stipulation that article-processing charges should be covered by funders or institutions are examples of the ways in which Plan S presents new opportunities for the region, even if there is still work to be done, writes Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S)

Les verbes à montée et à contrôle « ambigus »

L’auteur examine la relation entre le contrôle, la montée et les restrictions de sélection sur le sujet et le complément. Il en vient à la conclusion qu’il n’y a pas de verbes à montée ou de contrôle ambigus, que les aspectuels constituent une classe de verbes homogène, mais que certains emplois de pouvoir, devoir, promettre et menacer entraînent une distinction homonymique.The author examines the relations between control and raising constructions and selectional restrictions on subjects and objects. He concludes that there are no raising verbs, nor verbs allowing ambiguous control. Verbs of aspect are described as a homogenous class, althougt certain uses of pouvoir, devoir, promettre and menacer suggest that these verbs are homonymous pairs

Opportunity or threat? What Plan S can contribute to Open Access in Latin America

Concerns about the threat from the Global North to Latin America’s exemplary tradition of open access publishing are understandable but ultimately misplaced. Renegotiation of subscription agreements and the stipulation that article-processing charges should be covered by funders or institutions are examples of the ways in which Plan S presents new opportunities for the region, even if there is still work to be done, writes Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S)

Plan S: The road ahead

This paper has been presented at Open Science International Staff Week celebrated in Getafe (Madrid) - November 6-8, 201

From Lingua to Glossa: Linguistics in Fair Open Access

Johan Rooryck with be presenting from a remote location via GoToMeeting. A description of his presentation is below: Open Access publishing is often said to be the future of academic journals, but the actual move from a subscription model to an Open Access model is not easily achieved. The transition from Lingua to Glossa provides proof of concept that it can be done. This transition was made possible by our model of Fair Open Access, a model for flipping subscription journals to Open Access. This model has 3 main features: Discipline-based: Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA, www.lingoa.eu) helps flipping journals from subscription to Open Access Existing networks within the discipline are exploited to influence editors to flip their journal to OA. In linguistics, 4 international journals have moved to Fair Open Access. Sister organizations MathOA and PsyOA have been set up. No author-facing charges. Article Processing Charges (APCs) for articles published in the flipped journals are paid by a 5-year temporary fund established by LingOA. The foundation pays for APCs during the transition from subscription to Open Access, and also covers any legal costs and advice associated with flipping the journals. APCs are kept as low as possible, and ownership of the journal lies with a learned society. Long term sustainability. After 5 years, journals join the Open Library of Humanities (OLH www.openlibhums.org), which pays for APCs through its worldwide consortium of 200 contributing libraries that pay for the APCs of flipped journals. As a result, they can abandon the subscriptions for flipped journals and pay much lower APC-contributions to OLH instead. In this way, the flip from subscription to Fair Open Access comes full circle