Open Access Initiatives

Dedicated to the expansion of Open Access globally, we have extended our policy implementation through partnership and collaboration

PREreview

Looking for early feedback on your preprint? Want to contribute your expertise to support others in your field?

Join PREreview—a global community committed to making scholarly peer review more open, collaborative, and equitable.

At PREreview.org, you can:

We especially honor and elevate the expertise of early-career researchers and those from historically excluded communities. At PREreview, your contributions are recognized as essential to shaping a more inclusive and impactful future for science.

Be part of a movement to transform scholarly communication—join us today!

Learn more at PREreview.org

Editage

Gates Foundation Global Health Grantees: Get Free Support to Publish Your Research

As part of an ongoing effort to support Global Health research, the Gates Foundation has partnered with Editage to offer complimentary assistance to grantees preparing their research for publication.

Eligible grantees* can access support for:

  • Manuscript writing and editing, journal selection, and end-to-end publication support
  • Statistical Analysis and Review
  • On-demand training resources and webinars

These services are fully funded by the Gates Foundation and delivered by Editage, with a focus on ethical, high-quality publication practices. Our goal is to reduce the burden on researchers and help ensure important findings are effectively shared with the global community.

Visit the website to learn more and submit your request: www.editage.com/funders/gates-foundation

PLOS Partnership

Gates-funded researchers can now publish in PLOS journals without paying article processing charges (APCs).  The Gates Foundation is proud to support PLOS with a $3.3 million grant to accelerate its transition away from traditional article processing charges (APCs). Through this three-year partnership (2025–2027), we aim to remove financial barriers for researchers we fund, allowing them to publish in any PLOS journal without incurring APCs. This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to fostering a more equitable and open publishing ecosystem that supports global access to knowledge. Learn more.

Grantee Services & Tools

Services aimed at assisting grantees with data sharing, publishing, and protocol management:

  • Vivli – a non-profit platform for secure, ethical sharing of clinical trial data to promote transparency and collaboration.
  • Editage – provides editorial support to help researchers prepare manuscripts for publication. The Gates Foundation partners with Editage to offer free editorial support to grantees preparing research for publication.  Learn More.
  • protocols.io – a platform for sharing and collaborating on scientific protocols

Licensing & Rights Management

Efforts to support standard, permissive licensing in scholarly publishing:

  • Creative Commons – provides open licensing frameworks widely used for scholarly outputs.

Open Access Publishing

Models and platforms advancing access to published research:

  • PLOS – a nonprofit open access publishing organization. Through a partnership with PLOS, Gates-funded researchers can now publish in PLOS journals without paying article processing charges (APCs). Learn More.
  • S2O Community of Practice and Stanford University Press – exploring and piloting Subscribe to Open (S2O) and other sustainable OA business model alternatives

Open Science Funders & Policy Alignment

Groups coordinating funder efforts around open science mandates:

Preprint Server & Review Services

These initiatives focus on the infrastructure and peer review of preprints:

  • RR\ID and PREreview – preprint review services that support registered reports and community reviews
  • VeriXiv –a verified preprint server, enabling the rapid availability of new research findings. VeriXiv supports researchers in complying with the Gates Foundation’s refreshed Open Access policy that requires all their funded research to be made available as a preprint from January 2025.

Reporting and Analytics

Tools and initiatives that help track open access compliance:

  • OA.works –reporting tools for funders and institutions.