Excerpt #1

« Generalise the obligation to publish in open access all articles and books resulting from publicly funded calls for proposals » (“Second French Plan for Open Science”, 2021, p. 4)

Excerpt #2

« Reaffirm the French commitment to cOAlition S, support the rights retention strategy to provide immediate open access to scientific publications and make it easier for researchers to do so. Invite universities and research performing organizations to adopt this strategy when negotiating with the publishers. » (“Second French Plan for Open Science”, 2021, p. 10)

Excerpt #3

« Structure, support and modernise French scientific publishing → Introduce a scientific publishing support plan, in line with the commitment in the Research Programming Law. → Create an alliance of public scientific publishers committed to open science so as to promote the role they play, coordinate their initiatives and encourage resource pooling whenever possible. → Develop and support a public body for the dissemination and distribution of printed and digital books, to improve their visibility, particularly in bookshops. → Create a Scientific Publishing Observatory to bring together stakeholders in public and private scientific publishing, research, and scientific information. → Support multiplatform publishing, in XML, notably through Métopes, Lodel, and the Public Knowledge Project, and explore the potential for shared access to services for detecting plagiarism and monitoring manuscript submissions (editorial workflow). » (“Second French Plan for Open Science”, 2021, p. 11)

Excerpt #4

« SUPPORT OPEN SCIENCE IN HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES — Support open access book publishing through the National Fund for Open Science — Implement a scheme for widespread collective licenses to permit the use of images protected by copyright in open access scientific publications, under a non-profit structure (article 28 of the Research Programming Law) — Support the national infrastructures for research in the human and social sciences, and develop a range of services to connect data and publications in human and social sciences, using OpenEdition, Huma-Num and Métopes (winning project of the call for expressions of interest in Structuring Equipment for Research by the PIA) » (“Second French Plan for Open Science”, 2021, p. 11)