From: Ivy Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:05:22 +0000

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Dear Colleagues,

We’re pleased to announce the availability of the final report of the
Pay It Forward project, a joint research effort of the University of
California at Davis and the California Digital Library to investigate
a sustainable model of open access article processing charges for
large North American research institutions.  The report and related
materials can be found at:

http://icis.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=713.

We would like to thank our university research partners on the grant
(Harvard University, Ohio State University, and the University of
British Columbia, along with the nine remaining University of
California campuses), as well as our industry partner organizations
(Thomson-Reuters, Elsevier, and the Association of Professional and
Learned Society Publishers), for their invaluable contributions to
this effort.   The CDL/UC Davis project team is solely responsible for
the findings and conclusions in the report.  We hope our work will
make an authentic contribution to future developments in scholarly
communication and look forward to a continuing robust discussion of
these issues.

We especially thank the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its generous
support of this project.

Best,

Ivy Anderson
Director of Collections
California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President
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