Long-awaited OA policy from WHO
peter.suber's bookmarks 2014-06-17
Summary:
"From the +World Health Organization: "From 1 July 2014, articles authored or co-authored by WHO staff will have to be published in an open-access journal or a hybrid open-access journal under the terms of a Creative Commons 3.0 intergovernmental organization (IGO) ported licence, or in a subscription journal that allows for the depositing of the accepted author manuscript in Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) within 12 months of the official publication date. Similarly, articles produced by recipients of WHO funding will have to be published in an open-access journal or a hybrid open-access journal under the terms of a standard Creative Commons licence or in a subscription journal that allows for the depositing of the article in Europe PMC within 12 months of the official publication date...."
Also see my preview of this policy from January 2014...
https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/1YjoHUvYvXe
...and almost 100 of my blog posts on WHO steps toward OA over the past 10 years.
http://goo.gl/Lz03rA "