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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Who’s afraid of Green? Market forces and the Rights Retention Strategy
How to achieve universal open access (OA) to research outputs is the topic of sometimes heated discussion. Major publishers pronounce the superiority {...}
Blog
13.01.2022
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UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science: a response from cOAlition S
cOAlition S welcomes the landmark UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science that was adopted at the 41st session of its General Conference in November {...}
News
12.01.2022
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cOAlition S starts building its Journal Comparison Service to help create visibility of publishing services and prices
cOAlition S is pleased to announce that work has commenced on building the Journal Comparison Service to help the research community better {...}
News - Press
16.12.2021
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Journal Checker Tool update: we listen and learn from you
We value feedback from researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers and based on it we always seek to improve the Journal Checker Tool (JCT) to {...}
News
13.10.2021
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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.
