Springer Nature may pull Plan S backing over ‘unfair’ rules | Times Higher Education (THE)

"The world’s second-largest academic publisher has warned that it may pull its journals out of the Plan S project over new proposals to accelerate the switch to open access.

In an open letter published on 17 December, Springer Nature says new criteria for journals wishing to comply with Plan S, the push by some of the world’s biggest research funders to ensure articles are freely available, are “neither fair, reasonable or sustainable” and may “put the goal of full and immediate open access at risk”...."