Plan S

Making full and immediate Open Access a reality

The following table shows for each cOAlition S Organisation:

The date their Plan S-aligned Open Access policy will apply from
What their Plan S-aligned Open Access policy will apply to

It also shows which funders are adopting the Rights Retention Strategy to support the implementation of their Plan S-aligned OA policy from 1/1/2021. These funders are designated as “early adopters”. Other funders, who plan to update their grant conditions at a later date, are categorised as “adoption to follow”.

cOAlition S organisation (funder)	Launch date for implementing Plan S-aligned OA policy	Application of Plan S principles	Rights Retention Strategy Implementation
Academy of Finland (AKA)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Adoption to follow
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP)	1^st January 2022	All research articles submitted for publication from 1/1/2022	Early adopter
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)	1^st January 2021	All new grants awarded from 1/1/2021	Early adopter
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	1^st January 2021	All research articles submitted for publication from 1/1/2021	Early adopter
European Commission (Horizon Europe Framework Programme)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Early adopter (Note: the EC intends to implement the Rights Retention Strategy through the adoption of the Model Grant Agreement in Autumn 2020)
Formas (Sweden)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Early adopter
FORTE (Sweden)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Adoption to follow
French National Research Agency (ANR)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after the publication of the ANR action plan in 2021	Early adopter
Higher Council for Science and Technology (HCST, Jordan)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Adoption to follow
Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Early adopter
National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Italy)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Adoption to follow
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC, Zambia)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Adoption to follow
National Science Centre, Poland (NCN)	1^st January 2021	All new grants awarded after 1/1/2021	Early adopter
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Early adopter
Research Council of Norway (RCN)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Early adopter
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)	1^st January 2021	All research articles submitted for publication from 1/1/2021	Early adopter
Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Adoption to follow
South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)	1^st January 2021	All research articles submitted for publication from 1/1/2021	Early adopter
United Kingdom Research & Innovation (UKRI)	Awaiting outcome from OA review
Vinnova (Sweden)	1^st January 2021	All new funding calls opened after 1/1/2021	Adoption to follow
Wellcome	1^st January 2021	All research articles submitted for publication from 1/1/2021	Early adopter
World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO/ TDR)	1^st January 2021	All research articles submitted for publication from 1/1/2021	Early adopter

Plan S

Making full and immediate Open Access a reality

Implementation Roadmap of cOAlition S Organisations

Page last updated: 15th July 2020