The article "Warning: the creeping takeover of Open Science" underlines a concrete risk regarding the publishers' preprints control and that you could read in this little extract:

"Commercial publishers owning preprint services control the content deposited in these services. Preprints could be seamlessly integrated into their full suite of services, providing full service – and maintaining full control – from preprint to peer-reviewed publication. Subsequently, publishers could move to require authors to use these services, changing their terms and conditions to restrict the rights ownership and permissions of preprints deposited in their servers. Needless to say, such a scenario would negatively affect the use of community-owned preprint services, increasing the dominance of a handful of major players over the entire research process from inception to publication".

If this scenario materializes, it won't be easy to maintain authors' rights, as Horizon Europe and Plan S recommended.

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