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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The Rights Retention Strategy and publisher equivocation: an open letter to researchers
cOAlition S strategy of applying a prior licence to the Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is designed to facilitate full and immediate open access {...}
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20.04.2021
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cOAlition S enthusiastically supports the LIBER Draft Law for the Use of Publicly Funded Scholarly Publications
cOAlition S – an international consortium of 26 research funding and performing organisations committed to making full and immediate Open Access a {...}
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30.03.2021
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cOAlition S welcomes ARL’ s alignment with Plan S Principles
cOAlition S applauds the goal-setting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), which came as a reaction to the recent publish-and-read {...}
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29.03.2021
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Diamond unearthed: shining light on community-driven Open Access publishing
cOAlition S and Science Europe are pleased to announce the publication of an in-depth report and recommendations arising from a study of “OA diamond journals”.
News - Press
09.03.2021
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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.
