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.
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Help us get to know the open access journals and platforms that are free for readers and authors
We are pleased to invite you to fill in a survey dedicated to gaining in-depth understanding of open access journals that don’t charge author-fees, {...}
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22.07.2020
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cOAlition S response to the ERC Scientific Council’s statement on Open Access and Plan S
cOAlition S has taken note that the ERC Scientific Council wishes to pursue their joint efforts towards Open Access in a more independent way. The {...}
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21.07.2020
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Opinion: the cOAlition S Rights Retention Strategy
For a long time now, researchers have all too easily handed over to academic publishers the rights inherent in their publications. These rights {...}
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20.07.2020
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cOAlition S develops “Rights Retention Strategy” to safeguard researchers’ intellectual ownership rights and suppress unreasonable embargo periods
Publishers commonly require authors to sign exclusive publishing agreements which restrict what authors can do with their research findings, {...}
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15.07.2020
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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.
