{"id":121412,"date":"2021-04-10T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T04:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/a-guide-to-plan-s-the-open-access-initiative-shaking-up-science-publishing"},"modified":"2021-04-10T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T04:22:19","slug":"a-guide-to-plan-s-the-open-access-initiative-shaking-up-science-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/a-guide-to-plan-s-the-open-access-initiative-shaking-up-science-publishing","title":{"rendered":"A guide to Plan S: the open-access initiative shaking up science publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-guide-to-plan-s-the-open-access-initiative-shaking-up-science-publishing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the first papers under these mandates are published, Plan S supporters say it\u2019s the start of a journey towards open science. But most research funders haven\u2019t signed up yet, and negotiations over the plan have produced a complex landscape of options to avoid paywalls. Here\u2019s what the initiative means for scientists and journals \u2014 and some of the controversies that will play out in 2021 and beyond.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The push to remove journal paywalls officially started this year. Here\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first papers under these mandates are published, Plan S supporters say it\u2019s the start of a journey towards open science. But most research funders haven\u2019t signed up yet, and negotiations over the plan have produced a complex landscape of options to avoid paywalls. Here\u2019s what the initiative means for scientists and journals \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}