The Gates Foundation will require grant holders to share their research as preprints from next year, before it undergoes peer review. This move aims to increase open access to scientific findings and potentially influence other funders like NIH. The decision is seen as a strategy to avoid open-access fees.
“In a bold bid to avoid open-access fees, Gates foundation says grantees must post preprints.” https://t.co/Xnrn7N3axB https://t.co/PtKrMGmnz1
I love preprints, post them, read them, and cite them. Here is a comment from a very recent grant review. Approach Weakness: "However, this pre-print is not yet published in peer-reviewed journal after more than a year." If you rely on NIH, 👇this is not yet possible. https://t.co/ITYVa9GjqR
📚 Starting next year, the @gatesfoundation will require grant holders to make their research publicly available as preprints, articles that haven’t yet been accepted by a journal or gone through peer review. 🔎 How will this impact open access? https://t.co/ap8XT5vaoW https://t.co/fw0QTAY9wD
New piece from me on the new Gates OA policy: Fuel for Plan U, will other funders mandate preprints, and does this mean hard choices for NIH/PubMed? https://t.co/589H0CujAt
From next year the Gates Foundation will require grant holders to make their research publicly available as preprints, articles that haven’t yet been accepted by a journal or gone through peer review. https://t.co/8QsKsKYiY4