A diamond in the rough: how to strengthen diamond open access?
Read our topline summary of what the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access is, and how it was developed.
An open letter on open access: call for greater clarity and transparency of open access terms and conditions
Learn about the next step in the Plan S drive for open science – a letter to publishers calling for greater transparency on open access policies and contracts.
The key to open access success: a publisher’s insight from one million open access articles
Springer Nature’s Chief Publishing Officer provides an insight into the transition to open access publishing following their publication of 1 million open access articles.
Plan S drives Science journals to adopt compliant open access policy
Publisher of Science journals update their Green open access policy for authors of research funded by cOAlition S organisations to allow Plan S compliance.
Find routes to Plan S compliance with the cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool
Learn more about this useful tool for checking compliance when publishing cOAlition S funded research articles.
Nature journals introduce multiple open access options
Find out more about Springer Nature’s latest open access publishing options – and the concerns that some have raised.
Open access across the globe: our summary of the second Biomedical Transparency Summit series webinar
Find out more about what was covered during the second 2021 webinar from the Center for Biomedical Research Transparency.
cOAlition S bypass a block on the road to open access
cOAlition S Rights Retention Strategy aims to safeguard researchers’ intellectual ownership, enabling embargo-free sharing of research in online repositories.
Journal open access cost breakdowns will be needed for cOAlition S support
From 2022, journals will need to follow cOAlition S price transparency requirements to get paid. Find out more about the frameworks and potential benefits here.
cOAlition S publishes updated criteria for hybrid journals transitioning to open access
Following a public consultation, updated cOAlition S guidance relaxes the criteria for transformative journals, prompting commitments from further journals.
Draft guidance from cOAlition S supports transformative journals’ transition to full open access
Find out more about the requirements cOAlition S plans to set for ‘transformative journals’.
Plan S version 2: the right approach to full open access?
Following the revised guidance on Plan S, Bernd Pulverer questions whether cOAlition S is making the most of the opportunity to push for open science.
Authors undeterred by rising article processing charges
Article processing charges are increasing, but a recent study finds that higher charges seem to attract rather than deter authors from submitting to open access journals.
Open access and Plan S: what do key stakeholders think?
ISMPP’s first white paper, ‘A multistakeholder discussion on open access and medical publishing’ is now available.
Meeting report: summary of day 2 of the 2019 ISMPP Annual Meeting
Missed the 15th Annual Meeting of ISMPP? Read our meeting report to get up to speed!
Are ‘funding body journals’ the future of scientific publishing?
A recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the potential benefits associated with journals that are established by funding bodies.