European funders seek to end reign of paywalled journals | Science

"Frustrated with the slow transition toward open access (OA) in scientific publishing, 11 national funding organizations in Europe turned up the pressure this week. As of 2020, the informal group, which jointly spends about €7.6 billion on research annually, will require every paper resulting from research funded by its members to be freely available from the moment of publication. In a 4 September statement, they said they will no longer allow the 6- or 12-month delays that many subscription journals now require before a paper is made OA. The coalition will also ban publication in so-called hybrid journals, which charge subscriptions but also make individual papers OA for an extra fee...."