On 5 November 2018 the Wellcome Trust in the UK and the Gates Foundation in the United States with more than €2 billion research grants volume in total in 2017 announced that they were joining the open-access initiative, Plan S. They said their move was intended to “ensure that research findings are shared widely and are made freely available at the time of publication.
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