Go back

Plan S funders relax criteria for ‘transformative journals’

Image: Enrico Donelli [CC BY-ND] via Flickr

Publisher Springer Nature says it could move ‘majority’ of journals, including Nature, towards open access

Funders backing the radical open-access initiative Plan S, who will require all of the researchers they support to make their work openly available immediately from 2021, have adopted more lenient criteria for how journals can win their approval as acceptable publishing routes.

Journals that publish some or all of their articles behind a paywall will be acceptable when Plan S kicks in only if their publishers commit to updated criteria for ‘transforming’ to full open access that were published on 8 April. The update relaxes several proposed draft criteria for winning accepted ‘transformative journal’ status.

This article on Research Professional News is only available to Research Professional or Pivot-RP users.

Research Professional users can log in and view the article via this link

Pivot-RP users can log in and view the article via this link.