Pushing for 100%: Stronger effort needed for open access publications

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Summary:

Researchers who receive SNSF funding should make their results freely available. But to date only around 50% of publications have been set to open access. From now on, the SNSF will systematically verify whether researchers are meeting the requirement.

For the SNSF it is self-evident that research results financed with public money belong to the public. This position is also well represented at international level. In autumn 2018, the European Commission and Science Europe, the association of national research and research funding organisations, presented their Plan S, which aims to make open access the default option.

The SNSF supports the aims put forward in Plan S, but will for the time being continue its 2020 strategy unchanged. "We are closely following developments and will adjust our strategy as of 2021 if necessary," said Matthias Egger, President of the National Research Council.

Link:

http://www.snf.ch/en/researchinFocus/newsroom/Pages/news-190613-stronger-effort-needed-for-open-access.aspx

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Date tagged:

06/21/2019, 04:01

Date published:

06/21/2019, 00:01