The discussions around Plan S are voluminous. On 8 February 2019, the opportunity to provide feedback on Plan S closed.
We have been attempting to maintain a list of commentary and news stories on Plan S at the end of one of our blogs: Most Plan S principles are not contentious. This has now grown so large we have moved the list into this dedicated blog. We will continue to try and keep it up to date – please let us know if we have missed anything that should be added.
Please note that there is a list on the Open Access Tracking Project using the tag “oa.plan_s” which is crowd sourced and updated in real time, so is more comprehensive than this effort. There is also a comprehensive Reddit list curated by Jon Tennant available. A smaller list (but with different links) is also available.
Relevant documents from Science Europe
- cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020: A Declaration of Commitment by Public Research Funders
- Plan S: Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications
- Preamble by Marc Schiltz: Science Without Publication Paywalls: A Preamble to: cOAlition S for the Realisation of Full and Immediate Open Access
- Members of cOAlition S 9 October 2018
- Press release: cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020
- Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S (28 November 2018)
Commentary, news stories & press releases
These are presented here in reverse order of publication (most recent first).
- Scholarly Kitchen – Is Hybrid a Valid Pathway to Open Access? Publishers Argue Yes, in Response to Plan S (published 19 Feb)
- Richard Poynder – Plan S: What strategy now for the Global South? (published 15 Feb)
- Imperial College – Response to Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S from Imperial College London (published 13 Feb)
- LERU – Plan S – Positive Action combined with Positive Thinking delivers (published 13 Feb)
- SAGE – SAGE Publishing Statement on Plan S (published 13 February)
- Springer – Plan S Implementation Guidance: Submission From Springer Nature (published mid-Feb – no date)
- Taylor & Francis – Taylor & Francis Group: Feedback on Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S (published 12 Feb)
- Anxo Sanchez – Adopting Plan S as an individual researcher (published 11 Feb)
- Scholarly Kitchen – Taking Stock of the Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance (published 11 Feb)
- Manchester University – Plan S feedback (published 11 Feb)
- CAUL / AOASG – Joint statement on Plan S (published 11 Feb)
- Royal Musical Association – RMA response to the cOAlition S Implementation Guidance on Plan S (published 9 Feb)
- Hindawi – Hindawi’s response to Plan S: be the catalyst for change you deserve to be (published 8 Feb)
- OSI – Policy Perspective 1: Plan S and the Quest for Global Open Access (published 8 Feb)
- University of Southampton – Response to Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S (published 8 Feb)
- SCONUL – Consultation response (published 8 Feb)
- 101 innovations – Plan S feedback (published 8 Feb)
- Irish Research Council – statement on open access and Plan S (published 8 Feb)
- University of Stirling Library – Library Feedback on Plan S from University of Stirling (published 8 Feb)
- EUA – Turning principles into practice: EUA’s response to the Plan S Implementation Guidance (published 8 Feb)
- American Astronomical Society – Response to Plan S (published 8 Feb)
- Royal Astronomical Society – Plan S: Implementation and Feedback: RAS response (published 8 Feb)
- STM – Comments on Plan S implementation Guidance (published 8 Feb)
- OSA – Statement from the Optical Society (OSA) on Plan S (published 8 Feb)
- UKCORR – Plan S and institutional repositories – a response from UKCORR (published 8 Feb)
- jbrittholbrook – Feedback on guidance on implementation of Plan S (published 8 Feb)
- American Society for Nutrition – Do we need a Plan B for Plan S? (published 8 Feb)
- EuroScience – Response by EuroScience to consultation on Plan S (published 8 Feb)
- OPERAS – OPERAS Declaration on the Plan S Implementation Guidance (published 8 Feb)
- Wiley – Wiley Response to Coalition S on Plan S (published 7 Feb)
- British Academy – A commentary on ‘Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S’ (published 7 Feb)
- Toby Green – My Response to Plan S (published 7 Feb)
- American Anthropological Association – AAA Plan S Response (published 7 Feb)
- Cancer Research UK – Response to Plan S (published 7 Feb)
- UKSCL – Response to Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S from the
UKSCL Model Institutional Open Access Policy community (published 6 Feb) - Europe PMC – Response to Plan S (published 5 Feb)
- Royal Historical Society – Open Letter from History Journal Editors in Response to Consultation on Plan S (published 4 Feb)
- American Historical Association – AHA Expresses Concerns about Potential Impact of Plan S on the Humanities (published 4 Feb)
- Information Power – Helping learned societies transition to Open Access and explore Plan S-compliant business models (published 1 Feb)
- NWO – Main outcomes of NWO/ZonMw consultation meeting on Plan S (published 31 Jan)
- Insights – From coalition to commons: Plan S and the future of scholarly communication, Rob Johnson (published 30 Jan)
- UCL – A response from Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at the Wellcome Trust, to UCL’s “Response to Plan S (published 30 Jan)
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Eurodoc, MCAA, and YAE – Joint second statement on the implementation guidance (published 28 Jan)
- PNAS Opinion – “Plan S” falls short for society publishers—and for the researchers they serve (published 24 Jan)
- UCL – UCL response to Plan S consultation (published 21 Jan)
- African Academy of Sciences – Supporting Plan S, a model making research accessible and advancing science globally (published 11 Jan 2019)
Commentary in 2018
- David Wojick – Plan S does not exist (published 27 Dec)
- COAR – COAR’s Feedback on the Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S (published 13 Dec)
- Open and Shut – Interview with Peter Mandler about Plan S by Richard Poynder (published 11 Dec)
- Scholarly Kitchen – Plan S: A Mandate for Gold OA with Lots of Strings Attached (published 7 Dec)
- Nature – China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls (published 5 Dec)
- Scholarly Kitchen – Plan S: Impact on Society Publishers (published 5 Dec)
- All European Academies – ALLEA’s response (published Dec)
- 101 Innovations – 9 routes to plan S compliance (published 30 Nov)
- Jisc – Working together to implement Plan S (published 27 Nov)
- Scholarly Kitchen – Do You Have Concerns about Plan S? Then You Must be an Irresponsible, Privileged, Conspiratorial Hypocrite (published 26 Nov)
- New Scientist – Time to break academic publishing’s stranglehold on research (published 21 Nov)
- British Academy – Science Europe’s Plan S: making it work for all researchers. A commentary (published 16 Nov)
- Researcher letter – Open Letter in Support of Funder Open Publishing Mandates (published ~Nov, no date)
- David Wojick – Plan S USA (published 8 Nov)
- Research Consulting – From coalition to commons: Plan S and the future of scholarly communication (published 6 Nov)
- Open letter – Reaction of Researchers to Plan S: Too far, too risky (published ~Nov – no date)
- Science – In win for open access, two major funders won’t cover publishing in hybrid journals (published 5 Nov)
- qBionana.org – The Royal Society path to Plan S readiness (published 2 Nov)
- SPARC Europe – 10 ways libraries can support the implementation of Plan S (published 29 Oct)
- Open Scholarship Initiative – An overview of the Plan S debate (published 26 Oct)
- David Wojick – Plan S questions begin to cascade (published 25 Oct)
- DARIAH-EU – Towards a Plan(HS)S: DARIAH’s position on PlanS (published Oct – no date)
- 101 Innovations – Eight routes to PlanS compliance (published 22 Oct)
- Fair Open Access Alliance – FOAA Board recommendations for the implementation of Plan S (published 20 Oct)
- Cambridge University Press – CUP issues public statement on Plan S (published 18 Oct)
- David Wojick – Plan S architect stonewalls interview (published 12 Oct)
- Physics Today – Open Access at crossroads (published 11 Oct)
- Poynder BlogSpot – “It is for publishers to provide Plan S-compliant routes to publication in their journals” (published 10 Oct)
- Oxford – Plan S / cOAlition S: Science Europe OA (published 10 Oct)
- OASPA – OASPA Offers Support on the Implementation of Plan S (published 2 Oct)
- David Wojick – Plan S coming soon as of Sept 27 (published 27 Sept)
- Delta Think – News & Views: Potential Impact of Plan S (published 25 Sept)
- EuroDoc, MCAA and YAE – Joint Statement on Open Access for Researchers via Plan S (published 24 Sept)
- David Wojick – Euro funders float radical rules (published 24 Sept)
- The Economist – European countries demand that publicly funded research be free (published 15 Sept)
- OpenAIRE – Plan S: A European Open Access Mandate (published 14 Sept)
- Proactive Investors – RELX weak as UBS reiterates ‘sell’, cites news European research funders seeking to introduce Open Access system (published 13 Sept)
- COAR – COAR Response to Plan S (published 12 Sept)
- UCL – A revolution in academic publishing? (published 12 Sept 2018 )
- Academic response – Response to Plan S from Academic Researchers: Unethical, Too Risky! (published 11 Sept)
- SPARC Europe – New coalition of European funders join together to place unprecedented mandate on researchers to publish OA (published 5 Sept)
- RLUK – Plan S – A major shift for Open Access in Europe (published 5 Sept)
- The Marie Curie Alumni Association announces its support for Plan S (published 5 Sept)
- Nature – Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions (published 4 Sept)
- Science – European science funders ban grantees from publishing in paywalled journals (published 4 Sept)
- STM Association – STM statement on Plan S: Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications. (published 4 Sept)
- LERU – Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications: LERU’s reaction to Plan S (published 4 Sept)
- URKI – UK Research and Innovation joins Europe-wide ambition on open access (published 4 Sept)
- European Commission – statement by Carlos Moedas: ‘Plan S’ and ‘cOAlition S’ – Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications (published 4 Sept)
- Peter Suber – Thoughts on Plan S (published 4 Sept 2018)