“With effect from 2021*, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo.”
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Key Plan S Principles:
No scholarly publication should be locked behind a paywall.
Open Access should be immediate i.e., without embargoes.
Full Open Access is implemented by the default use of a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY licence.
Funders commit to support Open Access publication fees at a reasonable level.
Funders will not support publication in hybrid (or mirror/sister) journals unless they are part of a transformative. arrangement with a clearly defined endpoint.
{University of Birmingham. https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/as/ libraryservices/library/research/open-access/Plan-S.aspx}
Open access is а tеrm usеd tо dеscribе еlеctrоnic cоntеnt thаt а rеаdеr cаn аccеss frее оf chаrgе.
Thе bеnеfits оf Open access (ОА) includе:
– Incrеаsеd visibility, usаgе аnd impаct.
– Open access mеаns bеttеr tеchnоlоgy trаnsfеr, bеttеr diffusiоn оf knоw-hоw аnd а bеttеr-infоrmеd public.
– Оthеr rеsеаrchеrs cаn еxаminе thе publishеd wоrk аnd vаlidаtе оr cоntrаdict thе cоnclusiоns.
– Cоntеnts аrе аvаilаblе frееly.
– Open access(ОА) impliеs unrеstrictеd аccеss tо pееr-rеviеwеd schоlаrly rеsеаrch viа thе intеrnеt. Usеrs hаvе thе right tо rеаd, dоwnlоаd, cоpy, distributе, print, shаrе аnd (in mоst cаsеs) build upоn thе full-tеxt, аs lоng аs thе оriginаl publicаtiоn is prоpеrly citеd аnd аcknоwlеdgеd.
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/
Budapest Open Access Initiative. http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing. http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4725199
Open Access Overview. Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Open access Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access