Open Access Publishing
Open access to publications ensures that scientific publications are accessible to everyone free of charge.
This page discusses Plan S requirements in general. The content of the page is likely to change as the situation progresses.
Plan S has two primary goals:
to implement open access without unreasonable costs.
Plan S means that researchers funded by the Coalition S partners need to follow Plan S principles. In practice there are three ways of publishing articles open access (Source: Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S ):
Both European Comission (Horizon Europe) and Academy of Finland are participating in Plan S.
Full list of participating funders and supportersAcademy of Finland and Plan SHorizon Europe and open science
Some publishers have detailed guidelines on how to comply with Plan S principles when publishing in their journals, some publishers have more general open access policies.
If you are unsure of the open access policy by a certain publisher and possibilities to comply with Plan S, please contact Open Science and ACRIS team at [email protected] for guidance and help. In addition, you can use the Journal Checker tool to search for Plan S compliant journals.
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
ACS (American Chemical Society)Cambridge University PressElsevier IEEE IOP Publishing (Institute of Physics) Oxford University PressRSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) SAGE Springer Nature Taylor & Francis Wiley
cOAlition S has published a statement on open access for academic books in autumn 2021. cOAlition S recognizes that academic book publishing is very different from journal publishing, and instead of an uniform policy, a set of recommendations regarding academic books have been formulated. These recommendations are in line with Plan S principles and give funders an opportunity to issue their own recommendations for academic books.
Research funders want to promote open science and research, which is why they set requirements for the openness of research publications and data they are funding. European Commission (EC) and Academy of Finland are participating in the open access initiative Plan S, which affects the open access and open data requirements in calls starting in 2021.
For any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Open Science and ACRIS team at [email protected].
Open access to publications ensures that scientific publications are accessible to everyone free of charge.