The Reporting Period 1 covers 19 September 2023-18 September 2024, which was mainly dedicated to Work Package 1: Monitoring of the Impact of Plan S, and some early communications activities under Work Package 2.The main deliverable D.1.1 of this WP, the final report entitled "Galvanising the Open Access Community", was published on 15 October 2024.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13738479(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)The main findings of the report:
• Plan S has opened new avenues for achieving full and immediate Open Access, successfully placing Open Access high on policymakers’ agendas and bringing publishers to the negotiating table with institutions.
• The Plan S rights retention strategy had potentially game-changing effects, and institutions have since adopted into their own Rights Retention Policies.
• cOAlition S has a significant role in the current momentum around Diamond Open Access, and in raising awareness of the inequities of article-based charges publishing models.
• It is too early to fully assess Plan S’s quantitative impact, as many policies only took effect in 2021 or later, and they recommend revisiting the study in 5-10 years.
• Observing the significant progress in the push towards full and immediate Open Access since Plan S was first announced and the influential role of the alliance of research funders, it is recommended to continue cOAlition S beyond 2025.
• There is more work to do to reach the research community and include more funders from the Global South.
The second part of the grant supported the work leading to the development of the new cOAlition S strategy 2026-2030.
