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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cOAlition S welcomes AAAS decision to support the sharing of author accepted manuscripts
cOAlition S – an international consortium of research funding and performing organisations committed to making full and immediate Open Access a {...}
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15.01.2021
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160 Elsevier journals become Plan S aligned Transformative Journals
cOAlition S is pleased to announce that 160 journals published by Elsevier are now registered as Plan S aligned Transformative Journals. These {...}
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04.01.2021
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New project to review progress on transformative Open Access agreements between library consortia and smaller independent publishers
The follow up to the “Society Publishers Accelerating Open access and Plan S” project cOAlition S aims to work with learned societies, {...}
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01.12.2020
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Springer Nature adopts Plan S’s Transformative Journals framework
cOAlition S welcomes Springer Nature’s commitment to adhere to the Transformative Journal (TJ) framework. This route allows authors to make the {...}
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25.11.2020
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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.
