http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/win-open-access-two-major-funders-bar-grantees-publishing-hybrid-journals

Headquarters of the Wellcome Trust in London

Plan S, the open-access (OA) initiative launched by the European Commission and Science Europe in September, has gained two major new members. The Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—two of the world’s largest private foundations that support research—announced today they are joining a consortium of 11 European funding agencies in requiring their funded research to be immediately free for all to read on publication.