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Arguments over European open-access plan heat up

Biochemist Lynn Kamerlin tells Nature why she has coordinated an open letter — signed by more than 950 scientists — objecting to Plan S.
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Debate is intensifying over Plan S, an initiative backed by 15 research funders to mandate that, by 2020, their research papers are open access as soon as they are published.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07386-x

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*Lynn Kamerlin is on the editorial board of Electronic Structure (a hybrid journal), on the editorial advisory boards of ACS Catalysis, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, B, C, & The Journal of Physical Chemistry Lett. (all hybrid journals), ACS Omega (an open-access journal), and on the research advisory board of F1000 Research (an open-access publishing platform).

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