[Open-access] The OA policy of the Gates Foundation

Wed Dec 31 03:40:11 UTC 2014

Friends:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced its open access policy
which will require all fundees to make their papers open access IMMEDIATELY
on publication without any embargo. Also fundees are expected to deposit
their papers in a specified repository.  Please see:

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Open-Access-Policy

http://www.scidev.net/global/publishing/news/gates-open-access-policy.html

Arun

BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION OPEN ACCESS POLICY

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to information sharing and
transparency. We believe that published research resulting from our funding
should be promptly and broadly disseminated. We have adopted an Open Access
policy that enables the unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed
published research funded, in whole or in part, by the foundation,
including any underlying data sets.

As of January 1, 2015 our Open Access policy will be effective for all new
agreements. During a two-year transition period, publishers will be
permitted to apply up to a 12 month embargo period on the accessibility of
the publication and its underlying data sets. This embargo period will no
longer be allowed after January 1, 2017.

Our Open Access policy contains the following elements:

   1.

   *Publications Are Discoverable and Accessible Online.*  Publications
   will be deposited in a specified repository(s) with proper tagging of
   metadata.
   2.

   *Publication Will Be On “Open Access” Terms.*  All publications shall be
   published under theCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License
   <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> (CC BY 4.0) or an
   equivalent license. This will permit all users of the publication to copy
   and redistribute the material in any medium or format and transform and
   build upon the material, including for any purpose (including commercial)
   without further permission or fees being required.
   3.

   *Foundation Will Pay Necessary Fees.*  The foundation would pay
   reasonable fees required by a publisher to effect publication on these
   terms.
   4.

   *Publications Will Be Accessible and Open Immediately.*  All
   publications shall be available immediately upon their publication, without
   any embargo period.   An embargo period is the period during which the
   publisher will require a subscription or the payment of a fee to gain
   access to the publication. We are, however, providing a transition period
   of up to two years from the effective date of the policy (or until January
   1, 2017).  During the transition period, the foundation will allow
   publications in journals that provide up to a 12-month embargo period.
   5.

   *Data Underlying Published Research Results Will Be Accessible and Open
   Immediately.*  The foundation will require that data underlying the
   published research results be immediately accessible and open.  This too is
   subject to the transition period and a 12-month embargo may be applied
   .
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