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 Director, Publishing Strategy Virginia Tech Newman Library, RM 424 560 Drillfield Drive Blacksburg, VA 24061 540-231-9220 ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7100-5982 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