Confused by open-access policies? These tools can help

peter.suber's bookmarks 2023-01-24

Summary:

"Funding-agency policies mandating that scientific papers and data are made publicly available have helped to drive the adoption of preprints, open-access publishing and data repositories. But agencies often struggle to measure how closely grant recipients comply with the funding policies. Awardees, and the institutes that employ them, can struggle to ensure they are following the rules. Now, digital tools are cropping up to help both sides of the funding equation stick to the regulations.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, has invested US$1.8 million to support the development of OA.Report, a tool that helps funders to track awardee compliance with foundation open-access policies. Developed by OA.Works in London, OA.Report uses text-mining techniques to match articles with the funder that supported the work, by sifting through academic papers and open-access metadata. The software also tracks article-processing charges, as well as the subsequent reports that summarize the outcomes of grants...."

Link:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00175-1

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.funders oa.policies oa.policies.funders oa.compliance oa.tools oa.oa_works oa.oa_report oa.gates_foundation oa.funders

Date tagged:

01/24/2023, 12:24

Date published:

01/24/2023, 07:24