About Plan S
Plan S is an initiative for Open Access publishing that was launched in September 2018. The plan is supported by cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders. Plan S requires that, from 2021, scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms.
Latest updates
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NWO announces implementation guidelines for Plan S
Plan S – an initiative of European research funders to accelerate the transition to open access – will apply to all new NWO calls published as of {...}
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07.07.2020
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Development of Plan S Journal Checker Tool: tender results
cOAlition S is pleased to announce that the tender process to develop the Plan S Journal Checker Tool has been successfully completed. The tender has {...}
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03.07.2020
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Plan S Implementation Guidelines for Repositories: Results of COAR Repository Platforms Survey
In April/May 2020 the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), in consultation with cOAlition S, conducted a survey of repository {...}
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17.06.2020
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Exploring collaborative non-commercial publishing models for Open Access: tender results
cOAlition S received a total of 11 proposals for the tender for a study to explore collaborative non-commercial Open Access publishing models for {...}
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09.06.2020
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10 Principles
With effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional, and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo.
