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Q&A: Plan S responds to rights retention questions

      

Representatives of the open-access initiative on what they will—and will not—pay for

As the Plan S open-access initiative continues to clash with publishers over who should own the rights to research papers, two of its most senior figures have told Research Professional News that they do value the work of journals, but not at any cost.

The coalition of funders implementing Plan S is demanding that researchers it funds publish their work as open-access papers, or make versions of any non-open papers immediately available freely in repositories.

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