ALLEA has launched a task force dedicated to open science and chaired by Luke Drury (Royal Irish Academy).

cOAlition S announces that the tender was awarded to a consortium coordinated by OPERAS.

Science journals will have to disclose the costs of publishing articles by July 2022 in order for them to be paid for by a coalition of research funders pushing for open access.

From July 2022 only publishers who adhere to the newly approved Plan S price transparency frameworks will be eligible to access funds from cOAlition S members.

Springer Nature says it commits to offering researchers a route to publishing open access in Nature and most Nature-branded journals from 2021.

Revised ‘Transformative Journal’ criteria from cOAlition S are “challenging” but Springer Nature commits to transition majority of journals, including Nature. Approach means Plan S-funded authors will be able to continue to submit research to these journals.

Following a public consultation cOAlition S announces updated criteria for Transformative Journals.

New OA payment models are needed make open access implementation practical, journal editor says.

In this short piece Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at Wellcome and interim cOAlition S Coordinator provides an update on five key activities cOAlition S is currently supporting.

Elsevier introduced about 40 mirror journals, also known as X-journals, which enable researchers to publish Open Access and as such meet the requirements of Plan S and other funders.

Funders driving open-access plan may use template to push for pricing transparency.

Widely expected Plan S-style order hailed as 'major boost' to global movement

World's second-biggest publisher says proposals to accelerate switch to open access would not be sustainable for many titles

The government's "directions will be entirely determined by the interests of Indian academia and of India", according to K. VijayRaghavan, the principal scientific adviser to the Government of India.

A major push by science funding agencies in Europe to make the research they back freely available at the point of publication is the world's best chance of fundamentally altering scientific publishing, says the new coordinator of Plan S, Johan Rooryck.