In no way I meant to compare Plan S to the hero Harry P....

Oh wait, but I am, and it's quite appropriate too. Harry was not a hero by himself; Harry was inevitable, he existed because of evil. Furthermore, Harry did not solve evil by himself. He needed Hermione (the scholars), he needed Ron (umm....), he needed Marcel (ummm....).  Likewise, evil has Voldemort (the impact factors), deatheathers (ummm....)... Okay, okay, let stop pushing the parallel before it gets embarrassing. Point is, Harry was insensitive, clumsy, in many ways naive. And so is Plan S. Harry did not want to have to fight Voldemort. But evil demanded Plan S, ummm, Harry to exist.

So, with the big Plan S event tomorrow in The Netherlands I am trying to organize my thoughts.

About a year ago the HMDB changed there identifier scheme: they added two digits to accommodate for more metabolites. They basically ran out of identifiers. This weekend I updated the HMDB identifiers in Wikidata, so that they are all in the new format, removing a lot of secondary (old) identifiers.

Plan S (Wikipedia, Scholia) is here to stay. The pros and cons are still being explored, but with the list of participants and endorsements still growing (the latest endorsement comes from the African Academy of Sciences), it seems unlikely the ten principles will be disregarded. The implementation, however, may still change. I'm still looking forward to hearing more about the alleged improper lobbying and CoI of Frontiers. I have some thoughts and observations about Frontiers myself.
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