Free research needs the free circulation of ideas: On the current development of Open Access at the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

A report on the OA activity of the FWF (Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, or Fund to Promote Scientific Research) in 2011. "In the 2011, the FWF has spent € 2.1 Mio for all kind of publication costs (subsidies for book publications, page charges, submission fees, colour pictures and for Open Access publishing). That is about 1% of the FWF’s budget. Two-third of this cost was spent for Open Access publishing...."

Link:

http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/downloads/pdf/free-research-needs-the-free-circulation-of-ideas.pdf

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.mandates oa.green ru.do ru.ps oa.funding oa.reports oa.funders oa.austria oa.fwf oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 11:46

Date published:

02/03/2012, 13:46