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European Commission and a Group of RFOs Preparing a “Plan S” on Open Access |
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(11. 7. 2018, Toulouse) European Commission and a group of research
funding organisations (RFOs), members of the
Science Europe are currently
preparing a so called “Plan S” on Open Access. The plan foresees decisive
measures for advancement towards the Open Access of scholarly publishing by
2020. Concretely, the plan envisages that by January 1 2020, all scholarly
publications resulting from public research funding must be published in Open
Access journals or on Open Access platforms. On the Commission’s side,
Robert-Jan Smits, Senior Advisor on Open Access within the European Political
Strategy Centre at the European Commission is heading the development of the
“Plan S”.
In this regard, Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science
and Innovation, and Marc Schiltz, President of Science Europe met in Toulouse,
at the side of the ESOF 2018 (EuroScience
Open Forum). Marc Schiltz expressed his full support to the ambitious vision for
Open Science and thanked the Commissioner for his support since having the EC
and Horizon Europe as part of this concerted effort is crucial in order to
unlock Europe’s research from behind paywalls once and for all.
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