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Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
European Commission special envoy Robert-Jan Smits has spearheaded a plan to make all scientific works free to read. Article word count: 1676
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Robert-Jan Smits, the European Commissionʼs special envoy on open access, spearheaded the Plan S initiative.Credit: Nikolay Doychinov/EU2018BG
Research funders from France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and eight other European nations have [1]unveiled a radical open-access initiative that could change the (...)