Anyone can instantly access the researcher's papers that the Bill · Gates Foundation has funded so far

ByThe Italian voice

Charity fund organization founded by Mr. Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, a worldwide donor of health researchBill & Melinda Gates FoundationIt has become apparent that researchers who have been funded so far have requested that anyone can immediately access the contents of the paper for free immediately.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Open Access Policy - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Open-Access-Policy

Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles | Science / AAAS | News
http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2014/11/gates-foundation-require-immediate-free-access-journal-articles


The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says, "Researchers who have been funded by the Foundation so far openly publish the papers they wrote so that they can freely and unlimitedly access the articles and reuse the paper indefinitely It is necessary to approve "that strict rules will be effective from January 1, 2015 revealed. Those that have already been published in academic journals available to anyone are still OK, but they all need to be accessible online,Creative Commons 4.0It will be published based on.

The immediate access request of the article by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is much stricter than the policies established by other funders. In most cases, the policy is stipulated to publish the paper to academic journals available to everyone, but in most cases there is a grace period of 6 to 12 months until release. However, the policy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation does not have that grace period, there are also other instant deposits of experimental data, permission to reuse research data, open access of fundamental materials related to research, etc. That's why.

"By strengthening health-related research data worldwide, we can accelerate new solutions for infectious diseases and maternal child mortality," said Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation group Trevor Mundel, who is the president at the organization's Global Health DivisioncommentWe are leaving.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds many researchers, which amounts to about 900 million dollars (about 110 billion yen) annually. According to Amy Enright, Public Information of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, funds are provided to approximately 1,400 researchers annually, about 30% of the papers currently published in open accessible academic journals We are supposed to be funded by the Foundation.