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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cOAlition S welcomes transparency framework and report, launches pilot
Today an independent report is published by Information Power and is the output of a project funded by Wellcome and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) {...}
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14.01.2020
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cOAlition S response to Springer Nature’s Open Letter on Transformative Journals
cOAlition S has responded to Springer Nature's Open Letter on Transformative Journals. Read the full letter {...}
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17.12.2019
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cOAlition S Consults on Transformative Journals
The Plan S guidelines released earlier this year note that cOAlition S will consider developing a potential framework for ‘transformative {...}
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26.11.2019
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Gaps Report highlights why Plan S is needed
cOAlition S seeks to develop better understanding of the publishing landscape and the options available to researchers to share their research {...}
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21.11.2019
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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.
