"European countries to end paywalls for publicly funded scientific studies

European countries to end paywalls for publicly funded scientific studies

Stories – WikiTribune by Charles Turner  

Major national funders of scientific research announced that by 2020 they'll stop financing studies published behind paywalls. The open-initiative proposal, known as Plan-S, could dramatically alter how peer-reviewed articles are published. Under the plan,11 national research funders, including UK Research and Innovation, will require scientists who accept their public grants to publish their work in open-access platforms. The plan would exclude roughly 85 percent of peer-reviewed journals that, as of 2017, charge a fee to users to access studies (Universities UK). Plan-S has sparked backlash from scientific publishing companies, which largely support the subscription model.