From: Peter Potter <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:02:58 -0500

I don’t quite understand what this means. On the one hand, I read that
AAAS will “allow” authors funded by the Gates Foundation to publish
their research under a Creative Commons Attribution license. On the
other hand, it says that the final published version of any article
"will be immediately available to read, download and reuse." To allow
something is not the same as requiring it.

Peter J Potter
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Virginia Tech
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On Feb 14, 2017, at 8:17 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:47:50 -0500

The American for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have formed a partnership to advance
scientific communication and open access publishing. The partnership
will also ensure open access to research funded by the Gates
Foundation and published in the Science family of journals.

[SNIP]

As a result of this partnership, AAAS will allow authors funded by the
Gates Foundation to publish their research under a Creative Commons
Attribution license (CC BY) in Science, Science Translational
Medicine, Science Signaling, Science Advances, Science Immunology or
Science Robotics. This means that the final published version of any
article from a Foundation-funded author submitted to one of the AAAS
journals after January 1, 2017 will be immediately available to read,
download and reuse.

[SNIP]

http://www.sciencemag.org/about/aaas-and-gates-foundation-partnership-announcement