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Five US universities to provide central funding for open access publication fees

On September 15 2009, Berkeley, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a joint commitment to provide their researchers with central financial assistance to cover open access publication fees, and encouraged other academic institutions to join them. The aim of the Compact for Open Access Publication Equity (COPE) is to create a level playing field between subscription-based journals (which institutions support centrally via library budgets) and open access journals (which often depend on publication fees).

This initiative shows the increasing support to the open access and goes along with JIAS mission to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is freely and universally accessible online. JIAS is pleased that support towards open access is growing and hopes the expansion will continue.

Source: BioMed Central blog here.

Posted by Edith Gruslin at 16:18    Comments (0)