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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: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday February 19 2017, @09:12PM
Oops -- I'll just note Science Advances actually charges [sciencemag.org] $3450 or $4600 depending on the type of open license. I misread their statement about "average" publication costs of $2900/$3000, which apparently are based on averages AFTER various discounts are offered.