From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 18:31:50 +0000 I am sure that many of you have seen this, but Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have joined Plan S, and Wellcome have announced a revised, tightened open access policy. Specifically, Wellcome will require immediate OA for all articles resulting from their funding (so no embargoes), with a CC-BY licence. They will only pay ‘reasonable’ APCs and they will not (with a time-limited set of exceptions) pay for hybrid: https://wellcome.ac.uk/press-release/wellcome-and-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-join-open-access-coalition This will probably be just the first of many such announcements over the coming year as signatories to Plan S develop their implementation plans. David