Wellcome Trust och OA « Bibliotekshorisonten

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-04-13

Summary:

From Google Translate: "The Wellcome Trust is a good example of a research funding agency with great interest to the research funded should be freely available to all. After receiving the researchers to first publish in the form of OA, the Foundation's focus then increasingly moved to the publishers. Because of the Wellcome Trust, based in the UK, the British OA policy followed, which resulted in a high proportion of expensive publications in hybrid journals. When publishers found to not be able to live up to the requirements for them, Wellcome Trust repeatedly clarified what is expected at an OA publishing. The increasingly APC levels and the slow improvement process eventually got the foundation to explore alternative forms of scientific publishing, including new ways for peer review of scientific manuscripts.

By their actions the Wellcome Trust have been able to show alternatives to passively paying the publication fees. The Foundation has recognized the benefits of the publishers' magazines, but do not let it bring an undemanding acceptance of the Master's service and cost levels. With increasing experience of scientific publishing has options to publishers publishing forms also been presented. Happily, it seems several other funders to be interested in the experience of the Wellcome Trust.

As long as there is widespread dissatisfaction with the publishers, it is not enough to vent his irritation. There is also a project to develop and test new forms of OA. Even educational institutions and government funding agencies could collaborate on platforms, publishing archives and new forms of publication of OA, would likely give rise to a more dynamic development. Wellcome Trust have shown some of the opportunities available. Now it remains for more to follow in the foundation's track."

Link:

https://bibliotekshorisonten.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/3100/

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Date tagged:

04/13/2017, 17:59

Date published:

04/13/2017, 13:59