Publishing Paradox in Science All journals will be OA after 2025. Here is the dope - Plan S - into effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo. Plan S transformative agreements – There is a transition period agreed upon for this and this is called Plan S transformative agreements. This is temporary and transitional, where cOAlition S members provide funding to support publication fees of journals covered by such arrangements, this funding will cease on the 31 December 2024. Which means all the journals will be OA from 2025 and funding agencies have to pay APC. This means there won't be any subscription charges to institutions. Research organizations which may be paying a lot of mo