The Howard Hughes Medical Institute joins cOAlition S

cOAlition S is excited to welcome the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) as the newest organisation to join cOAlition S, a consortium of research {...}

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01.10.2020

Help us get to know the open access journals and platforms that are free for readers and authors

We are pleased to invite you to fill in a survey dedicated to gaining in-depth understanding of open access journals that don’t charge author-fees, {...}

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22.07.2020

cOAlition S response to the ERC Scientific Council’s statement on Open Access and Plan S

cOAlition S has taken note that the ERC Scientific Council wishes to pursue their joint efforts towards Open Access in a more independent way. The {...}

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21.07.2020

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

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