Open access

In a swansong message, Carlos Moedas calls on member states to give his successor more leverage to cut the cost of science journals  

WHO is backing the EU initiative to require that all papers reporting the results of research funded by public agencies be published in open access journals from 2021

Revised guidelines allow a longer transition to the Plan S requirement that all research is freely available as soon as it is published

Rebecca Lawrence of open science publisher F1000 urges Plan S drafters to ‘stand their ground’, in advance of a revised proposal due this month

His mandate now expired, Robert-Jan Smits reflects on how his radical open access plan has delighted and infuriated in equal measure. ‘This was the icebreaker that science needed,’ he says

Latest: BioMed Alliance: Plan S is “too restrictive and inflexible”

Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan wants a fairer system, and calls for science to break its addiction to ‘vanity’ publications