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

cOAlition S contributes to the UNESCO consultation for a standard-setting instrument on Open Science

cOAlition S funders, as confirmed advocates for openness in the scientific landscape, welcome the global initiative for Open Science launched by {...}

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05.06.2020

cOAlition S announces price transparency requirements

> See update: Journal Comparison Service: deadline for publisher registrations extended [March 2022] Adhering to Plan’s S key principle of {...}

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18.05.2020

cOAlition S publishes updated criteria for Transformative Journals

Following a public consultation cOAlition S announces updated criteria for Transformative Journals cOAlition S endorses several strategies to {...}

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08.04.2020

Open Access gathers momentum: 10 organisations pledge financial support

To support the implementation of Plan S, the European Science Foundation, in partnership with cOAlition S, will host and operate a newly established {...}

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25.11.2019

Transformative Journals: Rationale

Context in relation to COVID-19 pandemic One lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that we do need to move to a world in which all research articles {...}

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08.04.2020

Transformative Journals: Frequently Asked Questions

[UPDATE] 26 January 2023: cOAlition S confirms the end of its financial support for Open Access publishing under transformative arrangements after {...}

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08.04.2020

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

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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