Funders Roll Out Next Gen Open Policies - SPARC

"Private philanthropic funders of open research and open scholarly outputs have recently been pushing back against traditional research and output sharing mechanisms. In order to improve the open ecosystem, several have updated their output sharing policies to embrace new publishing innovations, and to codify existing sharing practices. Instead of paying for Article Processing Charges (APCs) to support green OA publishing, funders are requiring researchers to share their outputs using preprint servers, where findings can have immediate reach to the public and the research community.

“It’s exciting to see funders taking the lead in changing incentives in how to do open science,” said Emily Ford, director of the Open Research Funders Group. “It’s going to take funder imposed mandates to put pressure on the publishing industry as well as academic and research incentives culture to hasten the adoption of preprint deposit and immediate availability of research outputs.”

This impact story features three open research funders that have made changes that seek to do just that: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Gates Foundation and Astera Institute."