« Last month, cOAlition S released its Rights Retention Strategy to safeguard researchers’ intellectual ownership rights and suppress unreasonable embargo periods—Creative Commons (CC) keenly supports this initiative. (…) »
« cOAlition S has taken note that the ERC Scientific Council wishes to pursue their joint efforts towards Open Access in a more independent way. The European Commission, who directs the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, continues to support cOAlition S and Plan S.
cOAlition S remains firm in its view…
« The ERC Scientific Council is committed to implementing full and immediate Open Access and continues to support the principles underlying Plan S. Members of the ERC Scientific Council are participating constructively in various activities aimed at making Open Access a reality.
However, during the past six months, the ERC…
« Publishers commonly require authors to sign exclusive publishing agreements which restrict what authors can do with their research findings, including making articles Open Access in line with their funders’ requirements. To address this problem, cOAlition S has developed a Rights Retention Strategy, which will empower their…
« cOAlition S is pleased to announce that the tender process to develop the Plan S Journal Checker Tool has been successfully completed. The tender has been awarded to Cottage Labs, a UK data services and software company with solid experience in managing open…
« (…) The survey found that most repository platforms currently support compliance with Plan S mandatory criteria and, in the few cases where they do not, there are plans to adopt this functionality. In addition, many of the highly recommended criteria are also already supported by the platforms. As a next…
« cOAlition S received a total of 11 proposals for the tender for a study to explore collaborative non-commercial Open Access publishing models for Open Access (a.k.a Diamond OA) published in March 2020. We are pleased to announce that the tender was awarded to a consortium coordinated by
« cOAlition S funders, as confirmed advocates for openness in the scientific landscape, welcome the global initiative for Open Science launched by UNESCO and stand ready to help by providing advice, collaborating and sharing good practice. The following paper responds to the online consultation by UNESCO regarding…
« From July 2022 only publishers who adhere to the newly approved Plan S price transparency frameworks will be eligible to access funds from cOAlition S members (…) »
« La cOAlition S soutient plusieurs stratégies visant à encourager les éditeurs à passer de l’abonnement à un accès ouvert, complet et immédiat pour les revues qu’ils publient. Ces Transformative Arrangements comprennent les Transformative Agreements (accords de transformation), les Transformative Model Agreements (accords types de transformation) et les Transformative Journals (revues…
