If I simply inform the journal that this submission is made available under a...
No. The submission to the journal should make it clear that any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission is already licenced CC BY (or by exception CC BY ND). This can be...
View ArticleWhat rights statements must I include in my submissions to journals?
In the manuscript you submit for consideration by a journal you should include: Name of your funder and your grant number Text to indicate that any AAM arising from the submission is already licensed...
View ArticleWhat happens if an author doesn’t notify the publisher in advance that the...
If the author in their submission of the manuscript hadn’t identified the prior licence which will apply to any AAM arising from that submission, or that they were funded by a member of cOAlition S...
View ArticleHow do authors benefit from retaining the rights to their own works?
By retaining or asserting their rights to their own work, authors are able to use and re-use their work as they choose. This may include actions such as freely distributing copies of the work via any...
View ArticleWhen will cOAlition S funders change their grant conditions to mandate their...
Funders will begin implementing changes in their grant conditions from 1 January 2021. For details see the cOAlition S Organisations implementation webpage.
View ArticleWhy are cOAlition S funders changing their grant conditions to mandate their...
The Plan S Rights Retention Strategy has been developed to give researchers supported by a cOAlition S organisation the freedom to submit manuscripts for publication in their journal of choice, by...
View ArticleWhich licences are compliant with Plan S?
For any chosen route to compliance, the public must be granted a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to share and adapt the article for any purpose. cOAlition S recommends using...
View ArticleIs there a special, Year 1, exception for TJ titles which do not meet their...
The Transformative Journal programme is a new initiative, designed to provide another route by which publishers can provide a Plan S-aligned publishing option to cOAlition S funded-researchers. Given...
View ArticleWhat happens when an approved TJ does not meet its Open Access target?
By default, if an approved Transformative Journal does NOT meet its Open Access target, the journal is removed from the Transformative Journal programme. Once the Transformative Journal status has been...
View ArticleIf a Transformative Journal title fails to meet its OA penetration target,...
All publishers participating in the TJ programme are required to provide an annual report – at the journal level – showing, amongst other things, the actual OA penetration level that was achieved and...
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