Australian funders urged to join Plan S open access drive | Times Higher Education (THE)

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Summary:

:Australian and New Zealand research funders are under growing pressure to join Plan S, the European-led push to require academics to make publicly funded research freely accessible at the point of publication.

The initiative is due to be implemented at the start of next year by the 13 European national research funders that have backed it so far, alongside the European Commission and three charitable funders, including the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

However, the project’s backers acknowledge that, to achieve the “big flip” towards open access, they need to build a global coalition, and efforts have been made to persuade North American, Asian and African funders to sign up...."

Link:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/australian-funders-urged-join-plan-s-open-access-drive

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oa.new oa.australia oa.plan_s oa.new_zealand oa.funders.public oa.funders

Date tagged:

02/04/2019, 11:13

Date published:

02/04/2019, 06:14