An international coalition coordinating efforts to promote Open Science has published its annual report. Learn about some of the key achievements of 2022.
In September 2018, a group of scientific funding bodies decided to adopt a new open access approach: all funding recipients from these bodies would publish research results in publications without paywalls. The movement was dubbed Plan S and took as an objective “make Open Access full and immediate a reality”.
This initiative began with the support of the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERC). Since then, the movement has evolved into an international coalition—cOAlition S—which has been coordinating efforts to implement this plan. The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) is one of nearly 30 funding entities that make up this organization.
2022 was the fourth year of activity for this coalition, making it possible, through the report published by cOAlition S, learn about some of the year's main achievements.
Open access articles
In 2022, approximately 132,000 articles funded by institutions belonging to cOAliton S are available in open access, corresponding to 4 in 5 articles (79%). This open access rate is significantly higher than that observed when analyzing publications globally, where the percentage of open access articles is 56%.
Retention of rights
2022 also saw the launch of a new Rights Retention campaign with the motto "Publish with Power. Protect your Rights." The key message conveyed in this campaign is that "Open access benefits everyone. Retain your rights. It's good for you, for science, and for society." The rights retention strategy allows authors to deposit a copy of their accepted manuscripts (AAM – Author Accepted Manuscript) in an open access repository upon publication. As part of this campaign, several resources were made available. online resources, with the aim of helping the research community become more familiar with the retention of rights.
The “diamond model”
In 2022, cOAlition S, Science Europe, OPERAS and ANR (French National Research Agency) published the Diamond Open Access Action Plan (Action Plan for Diamond Open Access), with the goal of helping to develop and expand this community-based scholarly communication ecosystem. Diamond Open Access is a scholarly publishing model in which journals and platforms charge no fees to either authors or readers.
