FSCI 2021

FSCI courses are now closed. Course attendees must go to the course OSF page do see course materials and Zoom links.

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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-governed open access publishing system in Latin America, national publicly funded infrastructures in African and European countries and the society-based subscription system and governmental infrastructures in Japan and other Asian countries.. We will talk about 3 examples : AJOL, ScienceAfrique and African Continental platform 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 build on the “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. (Examples Germany, Netherlands, UCLA) We will highlight the growing importance of the Rights to Retention Strategy which offers a way to publish in subscription journals and still comply with Plan S. Finally the way the Plan S journal checker tool (JCT) functions will be discussed (it is in place since late 2020)

We will finish by emphasizing the inherent dangers of Plan S-linked transformative agreements and transformative journals , l and present reasons why we think that adoption of this narrow approach 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.


LIVE ZOOM SESSION SCHEDULE
(All times Pacific UTC-7)
Wednesday, July. 28
7 AM–9AM: Session 1
11 PM–1AM: REPEAT Session 1
Monday, Aug. 2
7 AM–9AM: Session 2
11 PM–1AM: REPEAT Session 2
Wednesday, Aug. 4
7 AM–9AM: Session 3
11PM–1AM: REPEAT: Session 3