Finland’s national research funder has signed up to Plan S — a push by a group of European organizations to make a radical change to the way that research results are published.

The Academy of Finland, which announced its move on 24 September, is the first organization to sign up since Plan S was launched by 11 funders earlier this month.

The now 12-strong coalition demands that, from 2020, papers resulting from the research they fund are immediately free to read on publication.

The Finnish academy dished out more than €440 million (US$509 million) in research funding in 2017 — most of which went to individual researchers.