Frontiers Policy Labs: In conversation with Robert-Jan Smits

The Road to Open Access Science

Robert-Jan Smits
President of the Executive Board
Eindhoven University of Technology

In conversation: The inside story of Plan S, the ground-breaking campaign pledge to end the restrictive paywalls around taxpayer funded scientific research. Vital scientific knowledge freed and instantly available to the many, not just the few.

The coalition's architect, Robert-Jan Smits, President of the Executive Board, Eindhoven University of Technology, shares his account of Plan S with Frontiers’ chief executive editor, Frederick Fenter. He discusses the shocks that Plan S delivered to the publishing world and the progress that unfolded. And he describes the efforts needed to see leading research funders and institutions commit to Open Access all the published results of taxpayer funded research.