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

Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan outlines benefits of radical Plan S, saying ‘access to knowledge should be free’

Robert-Jan Smits is pitching the Plan S vision to transform academic publishing to the world’s big science funding bodies. China’s surprise backing is making it harder for funders everywhere to ignore, he says

New Science|Business paper on how Europe can meet fast rising scientific demand for data storage and processing calls for a long-term strategy

Caveats are added to the amendment to the Public Sector Information Directive, to protect "confidentiality" and "legitimate commercial interests.” That may placate universities, research funding agencies and private investors that joined forces to object to the plan

Plan S architects explain how grantees can abide by initiative’s rules by 2020, when the paywalls are due to fall

Former head of Delft University of Technology, Karel Luyben, will set direction for EU’s cloud project, now formally underway on mission to provide access to all publicly funded research

Open access advocates unhappy about ‘lack of transparency’ in pricing for academic journals