Nature has a report that the Gates Foundation has announced a broad open access policy with regards to funded research:
from January 2015, researchers it funds must make open their resulting papers and underlying data-sets immediately upon publication — and must make that research available for commercial re-use. “We believe that published research resulting from our funding should be promptly and broadly disseminated,” the foundation states.
There is some concern that the "commercial use" availability clause may prevent publication in many journals, such as both Nature and Science
Nature, for example, states that openly archived manuscripts may not be re-used for commercial purposes. So do the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elsevier and Wiley and many other publishers (in relation to their non-OA journals)
The nature article references an earlier report that suggested that even researchers who support open-access may want to restrict commercial re-use.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will allow its researchers to publish open access papers in normally paywalled Science journals, after the foundation paid $100,000 to the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the privilege:
An unusual and perhaps precedent-setting deal will enable researchers funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to comply with a foundation requirement that they publish their papers only in free, open-access (OA) journals, but still publish in the Science family of subscription journals, which typically keep content behind a paywall for a year.
Under the deal, announced yesterday, the foundation will award $100,000 to AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider) to enable the publisher to make any paper by a Gates Foundation–funded researcher published in 2017 immediately available for free online. The deal covers Science and four sister subscription journals: Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, Science Immunology, and Science Robotics. (AAAS also publishes Science Advances, an OA journal.) The arrangement is provisional and will be revisited in 2018.
The deal is likely to affect only a handful of papers. The five journals published just 12 papers by Gates Foundation–funded researchers in 2015, and seven in 2016, according to an AAAS spokesperson. But it could spur a greater number of submissions and publications from researchers funded by Gates, the spokesperson added.
Last month, the Gates Foundation announced that it would not allow researchers it funded to publish in subscription journals; the move to put into action a policy the foundation initially announced in 2014.
Previously: Gates Foundation to Require Open Access
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(Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @05:22PM
1. Take the money from B&M Gates
2. Do your research and run the experiments
3. Publish paper A in "Open Online Journal for X"
4. Get a government grant
5. Do a continuation study, much of which revalidates the conclusions of Paper A, but goes a bit further
6. Submit Paper B to a commercial journal, with a reference to Paper A where readers can find results of a similar experiment
7. ??
8. Lawyers profit!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @05:43AM
It isn't a work-around, it is exactly how they're supposed to do it now.
And notice, we get more research funded and released this way.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Sunday November 23 2014, @08:11PM
Given the quality [soylentnews.org] of open access journals, it could pose some challenge on which journals are left.
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(Score: 1) by plnykecky on Monday November 24 2014, @08:01AM
Weell. The Q of a journal depends on what the authors publish there. It's a never-ending vicious cycle. Scientists usually judge the journals by the impact factor, then try to shoot as high as possible. Therefore Science, Nature get the cream (and some top-notch crap, too). Discussions with scientists about how arbitrary is to distinguish journals by name lead nowhere, of course. Everyone gets so greedy about getting their paper to Nat or Sci that you wonder where all the values have gone.
Then, every week there is one more open-access journal offering its royalty-free 'publishing' of your paper online, as long as you sign a copyright for them. These journals are equvalent to inventing a name, setting up a server for the referree process + the paper hosting and doing a little bit of SEO.