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 funding and performing organisations. 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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N8 Research Partnership: Rights Retention means researchers have a strong hand in terms of control over their own work
In 2008 Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to adopt a ground-breaking open access policy. Since then, over 70 {...}
Blog
20.01.2023
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cOAlition S confirms the end of its financial support for Open Access publishing under transformative arrangements after 2024
Transformative arrangements – including Transformative Agreements and Transformative Journals – were developed to encourage subscription {...}
News - Press
26.01.2023
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cOAlition S has officially joined the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)
This membership naturally fits with the aims and scope of cOAlition S. Specifically, the Plan S Guidance states that research should be assessed on {...}
News
15.12.2022
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More than 2000 journals share price and service data through Plan S’s Journal Comparison Service
cOAlition S is pleased to report that 27 publishers – who publish more than 2000 journals – have embraced the Journal Comparison Service (JCS) {...}
News - Press
16.11.2022
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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.
