UK Research and Innovation’s endorsement of Europe’s plan for open access looks like a move to maintain relations post-Brexit. The issue now is how it will be implemented, says Martin Eve.
On 4 September, Science Europe, an association of research funders and performers, unveiled Plan S, a strategy for full open access to publicly funded research work by 2020. The document is an eyebrow-raiser.
As well as ruling out support for publication in hybrid journals—which charge for both open-access articles and subscription content—the plan demands that authors retain full copyright “with no restrictions”. The article processing charges levied in return for open-access publication should be “standardised and capped”, the plan says.
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