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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.

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.

An interview with Robert-Jan Smits, with preface Robert-Jan Smits.

A list of the practical challenges and concrete steps that could help or hinder Plan S.

Robert-Jan Smits takes Plan S to the White House and says he is in the United States for ‘business not chit-chat’.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Major European countries are mandating that publicly-funded research should appear only in open-access journals.

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.

ECR-driven initiative launching in 2019 to collectively boycott commercial publishers and return scholar communication to the academic community.

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.

Paywall, a documentary about the open-access movement, makes its debut and will be available online.

Bold move is intended to trigger open-access tipping point.

Richard Poynder views a documentary on the tug of war over paywalls in scholarly publishing.

Nick Fowler and Gerard Meijer on the future of Open Access in Germany. Will the negotiations continue?

A guide to help search more easily for open access articles.

Are you in the process of starting an open access journal, or are you planning to transition an existing journal to an OA publishing model? In this post we break out all the steps to get an OA publication up and running.

Announcing R4R to connect authors to peers

Just like judges and politicians, researchers may overstate their confidence in a claim. To truly assess their confidence, something needs to be on the line.

There’s a real problem behind this Twitter spat.