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Plan S

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Plan S is an initiative for Open Access publishing that was launched in September 2018. The plan is supported by cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders. Plan S requires that, from 2021, scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms.

10 Principles

With effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional, and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo.

The plan is structured around ten principles. The key principle states that by 2021, research funded by public or private grants must be published in open access journals or platforms, or made immediately available in open access repositories without an embargo. The ten principles are:
  1. authors should retain copyright on their publications, which must be published under an open license such as Creative Commons;
  2. the members of the coalition should establish robust criteria and requirements for compliant open access journals and platforms;
  3. they should also provide incentives for the creation of compliant open access journals and platforms if they do not yet exist;
  4. publication fees should be covered by the funders or universities, not individual researchers;
  5. such publication fees should be standardized and capped;
  6. universities, research organizations, and libraries should align their policies and strategies;
  7. for books and monographs, the timeline may be extended beyond 2021;
  8. open archives and repositories are acknowledged for their importance;
  9. hybrid open-access journals are not compliant with the key principle;
  10. members of the coalition should monitor and sanction non-compliance.

Plan S

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Plan S is an initiative for Open Access publishing that was launched in September 2018. The plan is supported by cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders. Plan S requires that, from 2021, scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms.

10 Principles

With effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional, and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo.

The plan is structured around ten principles. The key principle states that by 2021, research funded by public or private grants must be published in open access journals or platforms, or made immediately available in open access repositories without an embargo. The ten principles are:
  1. authors should retain copyright on their publications, which must be published under an open license such as Creative Commons;
  2. the members of the coalition should establish robust criteria and requirements for compliant open access journals and platforms;
  3. they should also provide incentives for the creation of compliant open access journals and platforms if they do not yet exist;
  4. publication fees should be covered by the funders or universities, not individual researchers;
  5. such publication fees should be standardized and capped;
  6. universities, research organizations, and libraries should align their policies and strategies;
  7. for books and monographs, the timeline may be extended beyond 2021;
  8. open archives and repositories are acknowledged for their importance;
  9. hybrid open-access journals are not compliant with the key principle;
  10. members of the coalition should monitor and sanction non-compliance.

Pilot Launched: Funding Open Access for Post-Grant FP7 Publications

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goldfp7 v1European researchers to benefit from €4m fund to cover the costs of Open Access publishing for post grant FP7 publications

Launching in Spring 2015, a pilot aimed at stimulating publishing in Open Access journals in Europe will provide funding to cover all or part of the costs of post-grant open access publishing arising from projects funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The pilot forms part of the EU-funded OpenAIRE2020 project.

The Pilot

Opportunities for academic publications usually arise towards the end of, or after, the project has finished. The acceptance and peer review process can also delay publication, making it difficult to ensure that the cost of gold open access publications are incurred during the funding period of the project. By making 4 million euro of funding available to cover the cost of publications arising from FP7 projects up to 2 years after the project has ended, this pilot is a first step in addressing this gap. Up to three peer-reviewed research articles per project may be funded. Other types of peer-reviewed publications, such as books, will also be considered.
The development of the pilot will be coordinated by LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries. LIBER will work closely with the European Commission, OpenAIRE, publishers, libraries, institutions and other stakeholders in order to define guidelines and workflows which will maximise the impact of this gold open access fund.
Evidence will also be gathered from the pilot and other sources in order to produce a report on the arising open access publishing landscape and to deliver a vision of what a sustainable and competitive market for open access publishing should look like. This analysis will, among other relevant aspects, look into the extent to which open access publishing has an impact on subscription expenses at institutions.

Benefits

The main goals of the EC post-grant FP7 Gold Open Access Pilot are:
  • to make it easier for researchers to access funding for open access publication;
  • to define workflows for the processing of research outputs released via the Gold Open Access route, including guidelines for Article Processing Charge (APC) management;
  • to align these with emerging national and institutional mechanisms.
Through the monitoring of these workflows, insights will be gained which will help to make these processes more efficient and increase the impact of open access funding. By aligning and matching the data collected in the Pilot to the existing data in OpenAIRE, visibility and accessibility of the publications funded by the pilot will also be ensured by encouraging simultaneous deposit in compliant repositories. 

More information and contact

Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE Project Manager
Pablo de Castro, Open Access Officer, LIBER
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About OpenAIRE

OpenAIRE provides a technical infrastructure to support the Open Access policy of the European Commission. The initiative consists of a network of professionals from research libraries, technical research centres, as well as scholarly communications and open science experts who work together to make European research outputs visible and open to all. www.openaire.eu