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.