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The World Health Organization is joining cOAlition S, a growing group of agencies and charities that fund scientific research and that require their grantees to share their work in open-access journals or repositories. The coalition’s so-called Plan S aims to implement the open-access requirement for all of their funded research beginning January 1, 2021.
“There are numerous challenges for researchers, and sadly, one of these is limited access to current science literature. Thanks to the Plan S initiative, this will soon no longer remain a barrier to good research,” Charles Mgone, the vice chancellor of Hubert Kairuki Memorial University in Tanzania, says in a WHO press release on August 29. Of WHO’s $4.4 billion budget this year, around $50 million is dedicated to tropical disease research and $68 million to research in human reproduction.
cOAlition S began a year ago with 11 national funding agencies in ...
