Plan S

World Health Organisation joins Plan S to make health research available for free

All health research funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO) will be free to read online, the agency announced today. The announcement makes WHO the first of the United Nations agencies to join the growing coalition of research funders and charitable foundations implementing Plan S, an initiative spearheaded by the EU to give free access […]

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Open Access: the adoption of Plan S postponed

Plan S, aimed at accelerating the transition to full and immediate open access to scientific publications, will be delayed by one year. The change followed a consultation that the supporters of the Plan – autonomously named Coalition S – held this year discussing how the open access initiative should work. Despite the postponement, the new