{"674743":{"#nid":"674743","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Will the Gates Foundation\u2019s preprint-centric policy help open access?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world\u2019s top biomedical research funders, will from next year require grant holders to make their research publicly available as preprints, articles that haven\u2019t yet been accepted by a journal or gone through peer review. The foundation also said it would stop paying for article-processing charges (APCs) \u2014 fees imposed by some journal publishers to make scientific articles freely available online for all readers, a system known as open access (OA).\u0026nbsp;In 2015, the Gates Foundation announced that it would require its grant recipients to make their research articles freely available at the time of publication by placing them in open repositories. It later\u0026nbsp;joined cOAlition S \u2014 a group of mainly European research funders and organizations supporting OA academic publishing \u2014 and endorsed\u0026nbsp;the group\u2019s Plan S, by which funders mandate that grant holders publish their work through an OA route. Ending support for APCs is a \u201cvery sensible plan\u201d given the unsustainable increase in such charges in recent years, says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/lynn-kamerlin\u0022\u003ELynn Kamerlin\u003C\/a\u003E, a computational biophysicist and professor at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThe Gates Foundation plan is the open-access plan I would have liked to see when Plan S was announced.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world\u2019s top biomedical research funders, will from next year require grant holders to make their research publicly available as preprints, articles that haven\u2019t yet been accepted by a journal or gone through peer review. The foundation also said it would stop paying for article-processing charges (APCs) \u2014 fees imposed by some journal publishers to make scientific articles freely available online for all readers, a system known as open access (OA).\u0026nbsp;In 2015, the Gates Foundation announced that it would require its grant recipients to make their research articles freely available at the time of publication by placing them in open repositories. It later\u0026nbsp;joined cOAlition S \u2014 a group of mainly European research funders and organizations supporting OA academic publishing \u2014 and endorsed\u0026nbsp;the group\u2019s Plan S, by which funders mandate that grant holders publish their work through an OA route. Ending support for APCs is a \u201cvery sensible plan\u201d given the unsustainable increase in such charges in recent years, says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/lynn-kamerlin\u0022\u003ELynn Kamerlin\u003C\/a\u003E, a computational biophysicist and professor at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThe Gates Foundation plan is the open-access plan I would have liked to see when Plan S was announced.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-05-16 19:11:03","changed_gmt":"2024-05-17 13:29:59","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-00996-8","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"3232","name":"open access"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}