A group of 10 European research funders, supported by the European Commission and the European Research Council released plans to mandate a move to full, immediate Open Access for all of their funded research articles by January 1, 2020. Citing the detrimental effects of paywalls on the progress of science, a new document, “Plan S,” calls for “research publications that are generated through research grants to be made fully and immediately open, and not monetized in any way.” SPARC announcement
2019-01-24 UPDATE
Harvard Library and MIT Libraries provide recommendations for Plan S implementation
Why Society and Not-For-Profit Journals Are Worth Preserving: Better Economic and Continuing Value for the Community (2018-12-06) and related by Martin Paul Eve, How Learned Societies Could Flip to Open Access, With No Author-Facing Charges, Using a Consortial Model, (2018-01-21). also cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Societies_and_Open_Access_Research
Plan S: “China Backs Bold Plan to Tear Down Journal Paywalls” (2018-12-05)
“Plan S: Impact on Society Publishers” Scholarly Kitchen (2018-12-05)
Towards a Plan S gap analysis? (2) Gold open access journals in WoS and DOAJ (2018-12-05) Follows Towards a Plan S gap analysis? (1) Open access potential across disciplines (2018-12-05)
Peter Suber: Thoughts on Plan S First see the plan itself: cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020
Martin Eve: Dial S for Strategy
Danny Kingsley: Relax everyone, Plan S is just the beginning of the discussion and Most Plan S principles are not contentious (2018-09-12)
Own work; Shaw, Henry: “Alphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages” (1845) FROM THE GOLDEN BIBLE, printed at Augsburg[1] https://archive.org/details/handbookofmediae00shawrich