“By 2020 scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants provided by participating national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.” - Overview of Plan S - Key Principles and Purpose - Key Issues of interest to authors - Chance to provide your feedback, ask questions

1. https://www.dur.ac.uk/research.innovation/ou
tputs/openaccess/coalitions/

2. “By 2020 scientific publications that result from
research funded by public grants provided by
participating national and European research councils
and funding bodies, must be published in compliant
Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access
Platforms.”
https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/ (4th September 2018)
+ 11 National Funding Bodies
+ European Commission (inc ERC)
Signatories: 4th September 2018
&
+ 2 further National Funding Bodies
Signatories: by 5th November 2018

3. Principles of ‘Plan S’
Authors must retain
copyright, without
restrictions.
Published under an
open licence,
preferably CC-BY.
Start date: 1st
January 2020
Open Access publication costs to be
covered by Funders or universities,
not by individual authors.
“Hybrid” model of
publishing will not
be compliant.
Non-compliance
will be sanctioned.
All
publication
formats.
Policy/Funding to
be standardised.
OA costs capped
Open
Access on
publication

4. Principles of ‘Plan S’
Start date: 1st
January 2020
Open Access publication costs to be
covered by Funders or universities,
not by individual authors.
Policy/Funding to
be standardised.
OA costs capped
“Hybrid” model of
publishing will not
be compliant.
Non-compliance
will be sanctioned.
All
publication
formats.
Authors must retain
copyright, without
restrictions.
Published under an
open licence,
preferably CC-BY.
Open
Access on
publication

5. Why ‘Plan S’?
Barriers to access. Responsibility for appropriate use of
public funding.
Start date: 1st
January 2020
Failure of significant
progress towards
Open Access
Reduce complexity of multiple policies and
funding options.
Data from RCUK and Wellcome has shown an above inflation increase in
both the average APC (from £1,580 in 2013/14 to £1,988 in 2016/17)
Some large academic journal
publishers have reduced
options for free ‘Green OA’ by
increasing embargo periods,
forcing authors to pay for Gold
Hybrid OA.
data from the Wellcome Trust suggested
APCs in Hybrid journals were on
average 24% higher than those in fully
open access journals in 2016/17 (and
69% of Wellcome’s OA spend in this
period was for Hybrid journals)

6. Why ‘Plan S’?
Start date: 1st
January 2020
But what are the potential unintended consequences that
might concern you?
Licencing
and 3rd party
copyright?
Scholarly
Society
journals?
Funded and
unfunded
researchers?

7. Example: Wellcome Trust Start date:
1st Jan 2020
Scope:
• Journal articles submitted for publication from 1st Jan 2020
• No immediate changes for monographs/book chapters
Requirements:
• Be freely available immediately upon publication
• … from Europe PMC / PubMed Central
• … under a CC-BY licence
Costs covered by funder:
• “reasonable” APCs (no price cap defined. Yet.)
• Only in journals…
• … indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals
• … have an agreement with NLM to deposit in PubMed
• … in fully ‘Pure’ Open Access Journals or [until 31 Dec 2021] in journals
with JISC transformative OA agreements.
• Will not cover publication costs (page charges etc.) or APCs in Hybrid
journals.

8. Questions / Concerns?
Start date:
1st Jan 2020