On 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to delay the implementation of the bold open-access (OA) initiative by a year, to 2021, and announced some changes in response to scrutiny from publishers, researchers, librarians, and other stakeholders. The full article was published at Physics Today.
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