University of Southampton - Response to Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S

The responses to the questions below comprise feedback to cOAlition S on the Plan S guidance from the University of Southampton. These points are based on discussion at the University Open Research Group and consultation with professional and academic staff in all Faculties. The University wholly embraces the idea of a fully open future for research and the general principle of beginning to deliver on these goals from January 2020. We, as an institution, have been deeply involved in the progress to Open Access (OA), developing EPrints open source software for institutional and subject repositories of which ePrints Soton was an early example. Overall, we are supportive of innovation and disrupting the publishing market, but we are aware of a complex and varied publishing environment