Open access consortium Coalition S invites feedback on ‘responsible publishing’ plan

The consortium of national research agencies and funders dedicated to making scientific publishing open access, Coalition S, is seeking feedback on its new proposal that all scholarly outputs should be made immediately and openly available for researchers to adapt, reuse and build upon free of charge. Announced on 31 October, the draft plan aims to ensure that the authors of research papers decide when and where their research findings are published, instead of the publishers, and it says that this should include pre- and post-peer review versions, as well as associated peer review reports.