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:
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