Opinion: the cOAlition S Rights Retention Strategy

For a long time now, researchers have all too easily handed over to academic publishers the rights inherent in their publications. These rights {...}

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20.07.2020

cOAlition S develops “Rights Retention Strategy” to safeguard researchers’ intellectual ownership rights and suppress unreasonable embargo periods

Publishers commonly require authors to sign exclusive publishing agreements which restrict what authors can do with their research findings, {...}

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15.07.2020

Monitoring the effects of Plan S on Research and Scholarly Communication

Plan S[1] aims for a major change in scholarly communication to full and immediate open access. This immediate access to research articles will {...}

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10.07.2020

NWO announces implementation guidelines for Plan S

Plan S – an initiative of European research funders to accelerate the transition to open access – will apply to all new NWO calls published as of {...}

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07.07.2020

Development of Plan S Journal Checker Tool: tender results

cOAlition S is pleased to announce that the tender process to develop the Plan S Journal Checker Tool has been successfully completed. The tender has {...}

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03.07.2020

Plan S Implementation Guidelines for Repositories: Results of COAR Repository Platforms Survey

In April/May 2020 the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), in consultation with cOAlition S, conducted a survey of repository {...}

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17.06.2020

Exploring collaborative non-commercial publishing models for Open Access: tender results

cOAlition S received a total of 11 proposals for the tender for a study to explore collaborative non-commercial Open Access publishing models for {...}

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09.06.2020

Open Access lessons during Covid-19: No lockdown for research results!

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world as we know it, and research is no exception. Globally, scientists are working together at unprecedented {...}

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08.06.2020

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