UC Davis gets grant to look at open access to scholarship :: UC Davis News & Information

"The University of California, Davis, University Library and the California Digital Library will lead a major new project, with an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to help define the future of open access to scholarship. 'Pay It Forward: Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open Access Article Processing Charges for Large North American Research Institutions' is a yearlong effort to study the implications of new funding models for scholarly communications, particularly the use of article processing charges, and determine their sustainability for research universities in the United States and Canada ..."