This is an interview with Robert-Jan Smits, the Open Access Envoy of the European Commission, and who announced Plan S, ensuring research papers funded by European funders are made open access immediately on publication. The 'S' in Plan S can stand for 'science, speed, solution, shock', Smits told Nature. The key point now, according to Richard Poynder, is that "the ball is now in the publishers' court." Smits says "We expect publishers to come forward with offerings which comply with the principles outlined in Plan S". He also says, "It is for publishers to provide Plan S-compliant routes to publication in their journals." As Poynder comments, "I have myself on a number of occasions argued that publishers should not be treated as stakeholders, but as service providers." Of cousre, this means "seek to extract as much money as possible from the research community, caps or no caps, even as many non-profit learned societies face an existential financial threat." But they're doing that anyway.
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