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requerdanos [soylentnews.org] writes:

Science journals to offer select authors open-access publishing for free [sciencemag.org]:

AAAS, which publishes the Science family of journals, announced today it will offer its authors a free way to comply with a mandate issued by some funders that publications resulting from research they fund be immediately free to read. Under the new open-access policy [sciencemag.org], authors may deposit near-final, peer-reviewed versions of papers accepted by paywalled Science titles in publicly accessible online repositories.

For now, Science’s approach, known as green open access, will only apply to authors of papers funded by Coalition S, a group of mostly European funders and foundations behind an open-access mandate that takes effect this month [sciencemag.org]. The funders say immediate access will accelerate scientific discovery by disseminating new findings faster. Up to 31% of research papers in the flagship journal Science and four other Science titles have cited funding from Coalition S, said Bill Moran, the journals’ publisher. Until now, these papers had been available immediately only to journal subscribers, although the paywalled Science journals do make all papers free 12 months after publication.

Articles made public under the new policy will carry an open-access license, and authors will retain copyright, another of Coalition S’s conditions [coalition-s.org].

AAAS said it will pilot the new policy for 1 year, allowing it to judge whether the policy causes revenues to suffer.

Also at: Nature [nature.com]

Previously: A New Mandate Highlights Costs, Benefits of Making All Scientific Articles Free to Read [soylentnews.org]

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