From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:30 PM


"The publisher of Science last month ended a pilot partnership that
allowed open-access (OA) publishing for researchers funded by the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation.

"The trial was an effort to accommodate a policy clash between the
Gates Foundation, which has enforced strict OA demands since 2017, and
publishers that run subscription journals which don’t comply with
those terms. So far, 26 papers in Science and four sister
subscription journals have been published under the 18-month
experiment, and more may appear, says Meagan Phelan, a spokesperson
for Science's publisher, the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) in Washington DC.

"Neither Gates nor AAAS commented on why the deal ended, but Phelan
says the pilot was "planned for a duration that would allow both
organizations to closely explore what researchers need and value from
journal publications and related services".

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05729-2

Nature 559, 311-312 (2018)