In win for open access, two major funders to bar grantees from publishing in hybrid journals | Science

Plan S, the open-access (OA) initiative launched by the European Commission and Science Europe in September, has gained two major new members. The Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-two of the world's largest private-funded organizations are now joining a consortium of 11 European funding agencies for their research.

The two new partners add a lot of funding to the effort to make their journals more competitive. The existing Plan S coalition partners, represented by Science Europe, collectively spend about $ 8.7 billion on research. Wellcome, based in London, funds about $ 1.3 billion of biomedical research per year, the Seattle-based Gates Foundation spends more than $ 1.2 billion on global health R & D.

The largest part of the policy is that as of January 2020, and it will not be possible to publish them in the future. Most scientific journals now follow that hybrid business model, which allows authors to pay a fee if they want to make their OA articles. For the past decade, it's a good idea to get your hands on these fees, in part because it's a switch to their business models to full OA. "We do not believe it's a transition," says Robert Kiley, head of open research at the Wellcome. "We're looking forward to a change where all research is open access."

These are all part of the Gates Foundation, and they are all part of the Gates Foundation. (Current Wellcome Policy allows a publisher to keep an article behind a paywall for 6 months.

Can be satisfied by publishing in open access journals. However, if they publish in a paywalled journal, they must always accept their accepted manuscript to the open repositories PubMed Central Gold Europe PMC. (Nature, Cell, and Science). The preoccupation of a pre-print before peer-review.

The new policies from Wellcome different from the Plan S with respect to article processing fees for OA journals. Plan S aspires to cape these fees at a certain amount, but Wellcome, noting that publishers vary in how much they enhance articles, plans to continue to pay whatever fees the foundation deems "reasonable." (Gates is reviewing its policy on fees.)

Robert-Jan Smits, OA sent with the commission in Brussels and a prominent advocate of Plan S, said in a statement that by joining the effort, Gates and Wellcome "make an important contribution to the objective of Plan S to accelerate the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications. "