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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.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @07:44AM
Internationally Embrace Extend Extinguish
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @08:03AM
I remember when I was in High School, in science fairs, the IEEE and AAAS type people always made themselves visible, as if they were PROMOTING science and trying to get kids like me interested in engineering.
In my case, they succeeded. Kinda like that song that started off about a kid dreaming of rocket ships and space.
Now, fast forward 50 years...
I find organizations like this PAYWALLING science stuff?!??!?
Wake Up!!! You gotta make MONEY.
The message American politicians seem to scream to youth today via economic realities is "to hell with doing anything constructive - we'll tax the hell out of you if you try ... instead, do nothing. Now you can qualify for benefits."