From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> Thanks to Gary Price, via InfoDOCKET: Two Reports 1. via Nature.com "One of the world's wealthiest charities, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, is set to launch its own open-access publishing venture later this year. The initiative,Gates Open Research, was announced on 23 March and will be modelled on a service begun last year by the London-based biomedical charity, the Wellcome Trust." "The Gates Foundation has, similarly to the Wellcome Trust, contracted management of its publishing service to F1000Research, an open-access platform that rapidly publishes papers and data sets after an initial sanity check by its in-house editors. Papers are peer-reviewed after publication, and the reviews and the names of their authors are published alongside." Full Text article: http://www.nature.com/news/gates-foundation-announces-open-access-publishing-venture-1.21700 2. From Times Higher Ed. "Meanwhile, the European Commission has said that it is “preparing the groundwork” to launch its own open access platform as an “additional optional service” for the scientists it funds via the Horizon 2020 programme. Speaking to Times Higher Education, Jean-Claude Burgelman, head of the EC’s science policy and foresight unit, said it was looking at 'existing models such as the Wellcome Trust and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation” as it developed its own publishing platform to “comply with Horizon 2020’s open access requirement'." Full Text at: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gates-foundation-joins-shift-towards-open-access-platforms __gary Gary D. Price, MLIS Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal's infoDOCKET Information Industry Analyst Librarian