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Analysis of funder Open Access policies around the world
Check out also the analysis of funder policies by SPARC Europe.Funding and career options
Michael Eisen, open access advocate and co-dounder of PLoS, claims to reconstruct governmental science institutions like the NIH (National Institute of Health) and their grant programs to ensure scientific careers.
See also the discusion about “Success without Glamor Publications”.
George Mason University and University of California establish funds to publish in OA Journals
George Mason University, through theUniversity Libraries, will provide financial support to Mason scholars and researchers who wish to publish their work in open access (OA) journals. Faculty, postdoctoral fellows and registered graduate students are eligible to apply to Mason’s Open Access Publishing Fund (OAPF) for assistance with article processing fees required by some OA journals.
Click here to read more about it.
Beginning this week, the University of California campuses have launched a pilot open access fund for scholarly articles. This fund will help offset open access publishing charges for authors who do not have grant funds available to cover them. Eligible charges include Article Processing Charges (APCs) and Open Access (OA) fees for fully open access journals. Funds from the pilot may not be used for color charges, page charges, illustration charges, or submission charges.
Click here to read more about it.
Open Access — What Do Authors Really Want?
Open Access — What Do Authors Really Want?Alice Meadows, Wiley and Sons, suggests to support golden access as publishing method but votes if this would succeed for more funding especially for young researchers.
Funding seems to be a key issue, with only 18% of authors receiving full funding for article publication. Additionally, young researchers are nearly twice as likely not to have funding as their older colleagues; somewhat counter-intuitively, however, they don’t see this as any more of a barrier to publishing OA. Presumably OA will rapidly move up the ranks as a factor in where researchers choose to publish as funder mandates start to kick in – the introduction of the RCUK mandate on April 1, 2013, and corresponding increase in APC funding for articles arising from UK funded research, should be a good indicator.
30.000 Euro for open access publications: Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Germany established fund for open access
30.000 Euro for open access publications: Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Germany established fund for open accessWissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der JGU haben ab sofort die Möglichkeit, finanzielle Unterstützung für das Veröffentlichen von Beiträgen in Open Access-Zeitschriften zu bekommen. Die Universität hat dazu einen Publikationsfonds für die Finanzierung von Artikelbearbeitungsgebühren eingerichtet. Der für 2012 erstmals bereitgestellte Fonds umfasst 30.000 Euro. Bei der Vergabe der Fördermittel wird der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs bevorzugt behandelt.
In German.
Open Science & Research Funding: Write collaboratively in this blog.
Open Science & Research Funding: Write collaboratively in this blog.The advent of Open Science paradigms leads to new interdependences between Research Funding and Open Science. On one hand Research Funders require projects to make more than just text publications available according to the Open Access principles, on the other hand it is to be discussed how Researching Funding itself could be more open (or reach the next level as Research Funding 2.0). This contribution focusses on the both aspects: How Research Funding is promoting Open Science and how an innovative and open Research Funding could look like.