Europe’s Plan S Casts Shadow on Scholarly Societies | Optics & Photonics News
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Summary:
The beginning of September 2018 brought a thunderclap to the scientific-publishing world, with the announcement of the controversial “Plan S.” The plan, which comes from a group of core European national and E.C. funders that together support billions of euros worth of scientific research, holds that as 1 January 2020—just over 12 months from now—any research that the funders support must be “published in compliant Open Access [OA] Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.”