After Coalition S disrupted scientific publishing, new plan retreats from strict requirements

« In 2018, a group of national and philanthropic scientific funders, many based in Europe, shook up scientists and publishers worldwide with a new rule: Starting in 2021, their grantees had to publish their research findings immediately free to read. The controversial move, called Plan S (for “shock,” by some accounts), has been credited with helping boost the share of all newly published scientific papers published as open access above 50%. (…) »