Please see < http://associationsnow.com/2015/10/overcoming-obstacles-to-open-access-publishing/>. Some excerpts: OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO OPEN-ACCESS PUBLISHING *BY KATIE BASCUAS http://associationsnow.com/author/katiebascuas/ / OCT 22, 2015* "Eventually, once ECS reaches phase two of its plan, all articles in its digital library will be freely accessible to everyone “without any author paying what’s called an article processing charge, without any reader paying any kind of pay-per-view or other kind of charge, and without any library paying for a subscription,” Yess told *Associations Now*." [ECS is the Electrochemical Society, USA] "Critics who took issue with AHA’s stance made the point that the value of research, in this case historical scholarship, is a public one. [AHA is the American Historical Association] It’s a similar stance that’s behind the move late last year of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which publishes thousands of articles every year, to require researchers that it supports to publish their work in open and accessible spaces online http://associationsnow.com/2014/11/gates-foundation-makes-bold-push-toward-o.... The initiative marked the first time a funder explicitly set a policy to secure free, immediate access, and full reuse rights, for all articles detailing results of its funded research, Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, told *Inside Higher Ed* https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/24/gates-foundation-announces-op... ." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.