Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:46:45 +0530
From: Shivendra Singh
Five US universities to provide central funding for open access publication
feeshttp://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/five_us_universities_...
In a major step forward for the open access movement, Berkeley, Cornell,
Dartmouth, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week
announced http://news.biomedcentral.com/t/13102619/7881471/1544239/0/ 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
equityhttp://news.biomedcentral.com/t/13102619/7881471/1544240/0/'
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).
Read more http://news.biomedcentral.com/t/13102619/7881471/1544241/0/
http://www.oacompact.org/
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Shivendra Singh
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