Editorial

Abstract

With the first guidelines for Plan S published a few days ago, I would like to think that it is high time for STSS. As some of you might know already, the European Commission and a number of other donors have been vehemently advocating in favour of Open Access in Science. Any publication funded by a H2020 project must be accessible online and guidelines have been issued to decrease the amount of public money spent buying academic publications. This means that H2020 grant holders must use a significant part of their funding to buy golden or diamond access for their articles. Alternatively, they can upload a pre-print version of the article into a university repository while being careful not to break any copyright agreements with major publishers.