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An Open Letter in response to Plan S, signed by >600 researchers from all ranks, ranging from masters students & ECRs to full professors, department heads, institute directors, and Nobel laureates, from both cOAlition S countries and beyond.
The Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation join Plan S initiative.
The Wellcome Trust has also announced how it will implement the plan, which could provide a blueprint for others.
The Swedish ISP Bahnhof has a strong historic commitment to free speech, so when the notoriously corrupt science publishing giant Elsevier sought to force the ISP to censor connections to the open access site Sci-Hub, the ISP went to court to resist the order.
The first large-scale analysis of compliance with open-access rules reveals that up to one-third of articles are not free to read.
Governor Jerry Brown recently signed A.B. 2192, a law requiring that all peer-reviewed, scientific research funded by the state of California be made available to the public no later than one year after publication.
Publicly funded research output should neither be hidden behind paywalls nor be a 'pay-to-publish' game. This is one of the core tenets of the Position Statement titled 'Opportunities and Challenges for Implementing Plan S - The View of Young Academies', which is the result of discussions among several European young academies and the Global Young.
An interview with Robert-Jan Smits, with preface Robert-Jan Smits.
It has never been so easy to obtain grants for open access publications from the SNSF. Researchers can now apply for them on the mySNF online platform – even after the project has ended.
Robert-Jan Smits takes Plan S to the White House and says he is in the United States for ‘business not chit-chat’.
A list of the practical challenges and concrete steps that could help or hinder Plan S.
The claim that Plan S is unethical derives from an understanding of academic freedom that appears to rest on foundations that, if not shaky, are at least highly questionable.
Nation’s funder is the first to join Plan S - which aims to make all scientific works free to read on publication - since the effort was announced.
A recent investigation led by an international group of journalists raised concerns over the scale of the problem of deceptive publishing practices, but the problem of predatory publishing was overstated while at the same time discrediting open access publishing.
A large-scale analysis of the state of open access pulising across various countries from 1990 to 2016.
Plan S proposes to take a hammer to how we fund peer review and publication. Submission fees deserve serious consideration.
Academic publishers have some of the highest profit margins in the world. In the digital age, researchers are starting to wonder whether publishers actually deserve this much money.
Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves, says George Monbiot.
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, which represents the organisations most directly affected financially, was one voice of caution, saying it is "vital" that researchers have the freedom to publish where they choose.
Will Plan S deprive researchers of quality journal venues and of international collaborative opportunities, while disadvantaging scientists whose research budgets preclude paying and playing in this OA league?
Major European countries are mandating that publicly-funded research should appear only in open-access journals.
European and national research funders are expected to commit all researchers to granting open access to their publications as of 2020. The SNSF supports this Plan S. However, it is not in a position to add its signature to the plan at present.
Scientists warn the devil is in detail of the European Commission’s latest open access plan, while publishers argue prohibiting researchers from submitting their work to certain journals is a threat to academic freedom.
Richard Poynder views a documentary on the tug of war over paywalls in scholarly publishing.
Bold move is intended to trigger open-access tipping point.
Paywall, a documentary about the open-access movement, makes its debut and will be available online.
Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published.
In this Perspective, a group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, announce plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies' research funding.
The 11 national research funding organisations that form cOAlition S have agreed to implement the 10 principles of Plan S in a coordinated way, together with the European Commission including the ERC. Other research funders from across the world, both public and private, are invited to join cOAlition S.
ECR-driven initiative launching in 2019 to collectively boycott commercial publishers and return scholar communication to the academic community.
