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