February’s meeting of the Fully OA group was also the first to be chaired by Adrian Stanley of JMIR Publications, who took over the role from Frontiers’ Stephan Kuster. Adrian joined JMIR in 2021, and is a former president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. He has been part of the Fully OA meeting since 2021.
Updates were shared from the group including:
- PeerJ’s recent decision to publish all peer review reports for new submissions
- Frontier’s new journal launch, Frontiers in Science
- PLOS’ Open Science Indicators project
- eLife’s new model
- OLH’s 10 year anniversary this year
- That the field of Infodemiology, which JMIR’s President Gunther Eysenbach helped define in 2000s, has been added as a MESH tag by the NLM
A number of the Fully OA group members will be at the STM Annual meeting (April 26/27) in Washington DC and hope to catch up in person for the first time in 2023.
We discussed the announcement that cOAlition S confirmed the end of its financial support for Open Access publishing under transformative arrangements after 2024. You can read our previous blog on The Fully OA Agreement as a counterpoint to transformative agreements here. Also under discussion was the group’s 2023 workplan and a series of blog topics to work on over the coming year, which will include a survey of the groups’ differing approaches to “open” peer review.
The next meeting will be on 21st March.
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