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Gates Foundation Will Require All Funded Research To Be Open Access | IFLScience

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which funds healthcare projects ranging from agricultural development to supplying HIV treatments in Africa, has announced that starting on January 1, 2015, all research that receives full or partial funding from the Foundation will be required to submit that research to open access journals. For a period of two years, certain aspects of these requirements can be waived, so long as the paper and supporting data is made available within twelve months. Starting in 2017, everything must be made open from the beginning.

The Foundation’s press release outlined certain conditions that all researchers must meet if they are to accept money in the future. First and foremost, the research must be submitted to journals whose content is available to access online. Though most journals have online content these days, this stipulation covers all bases, just to be sure.

The next requirement is that published articles have a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC BY 4.0), or something with similar provisions. CC BY 4.0 allows all of the content to be reproduced for any type of use, even commercial.

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Wow, that's great! I think these access restrictions would go away really quickly once this stipulation becomes common place in most grants. Way to go Bill for leading the way.

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