From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:37:58 +0000

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is a private foundation launched
in 2000 by Bill and Melinda Gates. According to Wikipedia, it is the
largest private foundation in the US, and currently holds $40.3
billion in assets.

In 2014, the foundation announced the most radical OA policy to date.
The policy is striking both in its requirement that all research
funded by the Gates foundation must be made freely available
immediately on publication, and in its insistence that all funded
papers must be published with a CC BY licence attached.

In February 2017, the Gates foundation signed a year-long deal with
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s
largest general scientific society, to allow Gates-funded researchers
to publish their papers open access in the highly-prestigious journal
Science (along with four sister AAAS journals) without having to pay
an article-processing charge.

A month later, the Gates foundation announced that it was partnering
with F1000Research to allow funded researchers to publish their papers
on its own online publication platform Gates Open Research.

An interview with Ashley Farley, Gates foundation Associate Officer of
Knowledge & Research Services, can be read here:

https://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/the-oa-interviews-ashley-farley-of.html