Plan s
Plan s

Plan S funders adjust conditions of OA publishing

As of 1 January 2025, money from research funds from Plan S signatories will no longer be allowed to be used to publish open access in hybrid journals.

This means that in journals, such as Nature and Science, in which not all articles are open access, no more money from e.g. NWO, ZonMW and other research funders, may be used to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs). This is only allowed if you publish in fully open access journals.

Open access publishing, at no extra cost, in journals for which universities have a transformative deal does remain possible. Information about this can be found in our Journal Browser.

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Want to know more about open access publishing? Please contact the Open Access Team.
You can email us:  openaccess [at] ubn.ru.nl (openaccess[at]ubn[dot]ru[dot]nl). We are happy to help!

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