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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Reviewing the Rights Retention Strategy – A pathway to wider Open Access?
The following article was originally published on the LSE Impact Blog on October 26, 2022 Launched in 2021 by cOAlition S (an {...}
Blog
31.10.2022
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More than 2000 journals share price and service data through Plan S’s Journal Comparison Service
cOAlition S is pleased to report that 27 publishers – who publish more than 2000 journals – have embraced the Journal Comparison Service (JCS) {...}
News - Press
16.11.2022
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Gathering insights on copyright and open access at Europe academic institutions
This survey forms part of the work done as part of Project Retain, a one-year project led by SPARC Europe as part of The Knowledge Rights {...}
News
26.10.2022
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Plan S Journal Comparison Service: open for libraries and library consortia to register and access price and service data
cOAlition S releases today the end-user portal of the Journal Comparison Service (JCS). This secure, free, online service aims to shed light on {...}
News - Press
28.09.2022
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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.
