The survey conducted by COAR found no barriers for repositories to comply with Plan S
In 2019, the group of funders known as cOAlition S adopted Plan S, a series of principles and requirements to make peer-reviewed scientific publications resulting from research that this group funds in open, complete and immediate access. The plan is intended to come into effect starting in 2021. One of the routes to compliance with Plan S is for authors to make the published version, or the Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM), available in open access, immediately and with an open license in a repository in accordance with the provisions with Plan S. **
To comply with Plan S, repository software platforms, repository managers and repository usersmust be aware of the requirements and, in some cases, adopt new practices and functionalities.In April and May 2020 COAR, together with the S coalition, conducted a survey on repository platforms in order to evaluate the current capacity and intentions to support the requirements of Plan S, as well as identify challenges related to its implementation.
The survey results show that the majority of repository platforms are compatible with the mandatory criteria of Plan S and in the few cases that are not, there are plans to develop the necessary functionalities. Furthermore, many of the highly recommended requirements are already met by the platforms. As a next step, COAR and the S Coalition will continue their work together to ensure that repositories are well represented and to develop a more detailed guide to help them with the main functionalities foreseen in Plan S. **