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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Springer Nature doublespeak
One thing that crops up in politics is situations where politicians attempt to explain a new law they know people won't like or agree with, and do {...}
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04.05.2023
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Open Science: stakeholders welcome European efforts towards publicly owned and not-for-profit scholarly communication
For European public research and innovation actors, scholarly knowledge is a public good. Publicly funded research and its results should be {...}
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23.05.2023
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Registration is now open for the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access
The Global Summit on Diamond Open Access aims to bring the Diamond OA community together in a dialogue between journal editors, organizations, {...}
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10.05.2023
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Diamond Open Access 2023 Roadmap
Community Webinars and Global Summit In the lead-up to the October 2023 Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, Science Europe, cOAlition {...}
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14.04.2023
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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.
