<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi there, </div><div><br></div><div>I am passing along some very good news for OA. Please see this announcement about an OA policy being adopted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Natural Science Foundation of China.</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Kathleen</div><div><br></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><p><span lang="EN-US">May 15, 2014, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) both issued their Policy on Open Access to Research Articles from Publicly Funded Research, during a briefing on the coming Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council to be held in May 26-28, 2014, in Beijing, China. </span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">CAS requires its researchers and graduate students to deposit the final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of their research articles resulted from any public funding, submitted and consequently published since the issuing of the policy, into the open access repositories of their respective institutes, to be made open access within 12 months of their official publication. <span lang="EN-US">CAS also encourages researchers to deposit previously published articles into their respective institutional repositories as well. CAS will also support its researchers to publish in open access journals with good quality control and affordable APC.</span></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">NSFC requires the researchers funded by it to deposit the final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of research articles resulted from its funding, submitted and consequently published since the issuing of the policy, into the NSFC open access repository, to be made open access within 12 months of their official publication in academic journals.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">The Chinese and English versions of the CAS OA Policy can be found in the following reports (see the attachments):</span></p><p>Chinese version: <a href="http://www.cas.cn/xw/yxdt/201405/t20140516_4121375.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.cas.cn/xw/yxdt/201405/t20140516_4121375.shtml</a> </p>
<div><p>English version: <a href="http://english.cas.cn/Ne/CASE/201405/t20140516_121037.shtml" target="_blank">http://english.cas.cn/Ne/CASE/201405/t20140516_121037.shtml</a></p><p>The news from NSFC can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab88/info44456.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab88/info44456.htm</a></p><p><br></p></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>