[BOAI] Interview with Ashley Farley of the Gates foundation

[Richard Poynder]

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is a private foundation launched in 2000
by Bill and Melinda Gates. According to Wikipedia, it is the largest private
foundation in the US, and currently holds $40.3 billion in assets.

 

In 2014, the foundation announced the most radical OA policy to date. The
policy is striking both in its requirement that all research funded by the
Gates foundation must be made freely available immediately on publication,
and in its insistence that all funded papers must be published with a CC BY
licence attached. 

 

In February 2017, the Gates foundation signed a year-long deal with the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest
general scientific society, to allow Gates-funded researchers to publish
their papers open access in the highly-prestigious journal Science (along
with four sister AAAS journals) without having to pay an article-processing
charge.

 

A month later, the Gates foundation announced that it was partnering with
F1000Research to allow funded researchers to publish their papers on its own
online publication platform Gates Open Research. 

 

An interview with Ashley Farley, Gates foundation Associate Officer of
Knowledge & Research Services, can be read here:

 

https://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/the-oa-interviews-ashley-farley-of.ht
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