From *I, Science *(Imperial College, London, UK) OPEN ACCESS FLOURISHES FURTHER Posted on June 25, 2014 http://www.isciencemag.co.uk/features/news/open-access-flourishes-further-2/ by Dalmeet Singh Chawla http://www.isciencemag.co.uk/author/dalmeet-chawla-2/ *This news story was published in the World News section of the Super Science issue (issue 28), as one of the most important science stories of the past few months.* [image: Open Acess FF-1] http://www.isciencemag.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Open-Acess-FF-1.jpg Two of the largest funders of research, the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust, have begun to withhold grant payments for research that was not published under an open access license. The Wellcome Trust withheld grant payments 63 times in the last year and the NIH has also discontinued grants since July 2013 on a number of occasions because the research wasn’t published open access. As a result, the compliance rate to open access of the NIH has gone up from 75% to 82% and that of the Wellcome Trust has increased from 55% to 69%. There are more places to publish open access research than ever before. In February 2014, The Royal Society announced the launch of a new journal called *Royal Society Open Science*. The new journal publishes across a broad range of disciplines, offers open peer review as an option, and also has article level metrics to encourage post publication comments. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) have followed suite and announced the launch of their first open access journal, *Science Advances*. It follows on the heels of open access journal *Scientific Reports*, which was started by their competitor Nature Publishing Group in 2011. The Wellcome Trust have gone a step further and launched a new online platform called Mosaic under the most liberal open access license – CC-BY. The website actively encourages all of their content, with the exception of a few photos, to be republished on other platforms for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Their ‘Killer Dust’ piece has been republished on the *I, Science *website. Finally, the Science Museum Group Journal also started under the CC-BY license and puts out articles about science history and communication, material culture and museum display and presentation. Currently, the NIH and the Wellcome Trust are the only two funders worldwide that suppress grant payments due to noncompliance with open access policies, but with the continued rise of the open access model it is believed that other funders may follow in their footsteps in years to come. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.