The document summarizes a presentation given at the UOC Research Showcase in 2019. The presentation analyzed 214 Spanish social science journals indexed in the Scimago Journal Rank to evaluate their compliance with the requirements of Plan S, an initiative to make scholarly publications openly available. The results of the analysis are available online and show that moving to more open publishing models will require navigating conflicting views from stakeholders and addressing geopolitical issues.

1. UOC Research Showcase
2019 edition
5th November 2019
#researchUOC

2. Improving the scholarly publishing
ecosystem: Plan S and Open Science
Alexandre López-Borrull, Candela Ollé,
Ernest Abadal & Francesc Garcia-Grimau

3. Publish or perish, the eye of the tiger...

4. Open Science, the promised land...

5. Plan S, the times are a-changin’...

6. Conflicting views, you are the one that I want...

7. Conflicting views, should I stay or should I go...

8. Geopolitics, land of confusion...

9. Methodology, time after time...
- Analysis of the Social Sciences Spanish journals indexed in Scimago
Journal Rank (N=214, March-July 2019)
- Requirements regarding business model, legal aspects, interoperability
and metadata:
- 12 compulsory requirements
- 6 optional requirements
- Dataset available in https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9249911.v1

10. Results, I still haven’t found what I’m looking for...

11. Results, knocking on heaven’s door...

12. Results, up where we belong...

13. Results, many rivers to cross...

14. Stakeholders, one step beyond...

15. Open science, wish you were here...

16. UOCresearch
@UOC_research
Gràcies!!