A Plan B for Plan S?

Discusses how European funding agencies, “cOAlition S” (Plan S) will impact IEEE publications. cOAlition S founders include heavyweights such as the European Research Council ERC, France’s ANR, and U.K. Research and Innovation. Many other European funding agencies (e.g., Germany’s DFG and Switzerland’s SNF) have pledged support for—but not yet signed—Plan S. DFG and SNF, however, are signatories to the much older OA2020 initiative, which has similar goals as Plan S though is less prescriptive in how to reach them. While dominated by European universities and their libraries, OA2020 also features about a dozen U.S. institutions.