Articles on Plan S, the European plan to insist on open access for all research papers.

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A new initiative to accelerate the transition to full and immediate open access to scientific publications has been announced by Science Europe today under the name of ‘Plan S’. Launched by the Open Access Envoy of the European Commission, it was further developed by the President of Science Europe. Endorsed by a group of Science Europe member organisations, it puts forward a number of fundamental principles for developing Open Access to publications more fully. The ERC Scientific Council has decided to support the initiative. The principles published drew on input from the Scientific Council.
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https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-supports-full-open-access
 
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Article in Nature on this
Research funders from France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and eight other European nations have unveiled a radical open-access initiative that could change the face of science publishing in two years — and which has instantly provoked protest from publishers.

The 11 agencies, who together spend €7.6 billion (US$8.8 billion) in research grants annually, say they will mandate that, from 2020, the scientists they fund must make resulting papers free to read immediately on publication (see ‘Plan S players’). The papers would have a liberal publishing licence that would allow anyone else to download, translate or otherwise reuse the work. “No science should be locked behind paywalls!” says a preamble document that accompanies the pledge, called Plan S, released on 4 September.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06178-7
 
Two of the world’s largest biomedical research funders have backed a plan to make all papers resulting from work they fund open access on publication by 2020.

On 5 November, the London-based Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, announced they were both endorsing ‘Plan S’, adding their weight to an initiative already backed by 13 research funders across Europe since its launch in September. The plan was spearheaded by Robert-Jan Smits, the European Commission’s special envoy on open access.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07300-5
 
"Two of the world’s largest biomedical research funders have backed a plan to make all papers resulting from work they fund open access on publication by 2020"

The data would also be good to have open access of course, because the paper can potentially just be a spin on the findings. As PACE etc illustrate so well.
 
Arguments over European open-access plan heat up

Debate is intensifying over Plan S, an initiative backed by 15 research funders to mandate that, by 2020, their research papers are open access as soon as they are published.

The Europe-led statement was launched in September, but details of its implementation haven’t yet been released. And while many open-access supporters have welcomed Plan S, others are now objecting to some of its specifics.

On 5 November, more than 600 researchers, including two Nobel laureates, published an open letter calling the plan “too risky for science”, “unfair”, and “a serious violation of academic freedom” for the scientists affected; more than 950 have now signed.

Letter coordinator Lynn Kamerlin, a biochemist at Uppsala University in Sweden who sits on the boards* of both open-access journals and publications that may be affected by Plan S, talks to Nature about her problems with the plan.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07386-x
 
Researchers sign petition backing plans to end paywalls
Online letter argues that Plan S — which dictates that research papers be immediately free to read — will not impinge on academic freedom, as some critics claim.

More than 1,400 researchers have signed an online letter backing the principles of Plan S, the bold open-access initiative led by research agencies who say that, by 2020, papers resulting from their funding should be immediately free to read on publication.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07632-2
 
High-profile subscription journals critique Plan S
Publishers of highly selective scholarly journals — including Nature and Science — say that they cannot comply with Plan S, a European-led initiative that mandates free access to research results on publication from 2020, unless its rules are changed.

Their appeals come as part of a massive consultation on how the open-access initiative should work, which closed on 8 February and received about 600 responses, including from most of the world’s major academic publishers.

Many publishers told the Plan S coalition that they support the general aims of the initiative, but don’t agree on its details. They also say the timeframe for the transition is too short.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00596-x
 
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