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 responds to Open Access publishers’ statement on Transformative Agreements
cOAlition S has taken good note of the position paper by five fully Open Access publishers that criticizes the low transformational potential of {...}
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30.03.2020
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Exploring collaborative non-commercial publishing models for Open Access: Apply to perform a study
cOAlition S publishes today, 27 March 2020, a call for an informed study containing an analysis and overview of collaborative non-commercial (aka {...}
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27.03.2020
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Transformative Journals: update on draft framework
Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, and the fact that all stakeholders in the scholarly communication system are focusing their efforts on supporting {...}
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26.03.2020
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Open Access and Plan S: 5 key activities
The emerging Coronavirus (COVID19) has once again highlighted the need for researchers for have unfettered access to the research literature. Indeed, {...}
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18.02.2020
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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.
