Chemists voice concerns over ‘risky’ Plan S open access policy | News | Chemistry World

"More than 850 researchers – the majority of them chemists – from across Europe have signed an open letter saying Science Europe’s Plan S, an ambitious set of principles designed to speed up the transition to open access publishing, ‘goes too far’ and is ‘too risky’.

They are concerned some of the measures in Plan S – including the opposition to hybrid open access publishing – will limit researchers’ freedom to publish in high quality journals that are important for their career progression. They claim the rules will disproportionately affect fields such as chemistry, where many of the most popular journals are hybrid...."