Impact of Social Sciences – A note to administrators and librarians: Those that fund research are responsible for funding its dissemination.

"As a university administrator or librarian, you may see the future in open-access journal publishing and may be motivated to help bring that future about. It should go without saying that efforts to foster open-access journal publishing are completely consistent with, in fact aided by, fostering open access through self-deposit in open repositories (so-called 'green open access'). I am a long and ardent supporter of such efforts myself, and urge you as university administrators and librarians to promote green open access as well. I would urge you to establish or maintain an open-access fund to underwrite publication fees for open-access journals, but to do so in a way that follows the principles that underlie the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE) ..."