OA.Works receives $1.9 million to bolster OA policies

"We’re thrilled to announce that OA Works (formerly Open Access Button) has received a grant of $1.9M USD over the next three years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The investment expands OA.Work’s efforts to streamline self-archiving through ShareYourPaper, and forges a new partnership with the foundation to develop tools that help put OA policies into practice. We’re building three new open-source services for the foundation and other institutions, including: OAreport: to discover, analyze, and unlock papers covered by OA policies. ShareYourPaper for Funders: to bring drag-and-drop self-archiving to funders and their grantees. OAsupport: to provide a help desk that serves authors making their work open access...."