Chemists react to UK umbrella funding body’s new open access mandate
Agency aligns itself with principles of Plan S by insisting on immediate open access
British umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable with science minister Amanda Solloway earlier this month. Under the new terms, researchers submitting papers to journals from April 2022 will need to make sure they are immediately free to read upon publication.