Open Access Ventures -Content-Draft

Grantee Services & Tools

Services aimed at assisting grantees with data sharing, publishing, and protocol management. Learn More

Licensing & Rights Management

Efforts to support standard, permissive licensing in scholarly publishing. Learn More

Open Access Publishing

Models and platforms advancing access to published research. Learn More

Open Science Funders & Policy Alignment

Groups coordinating funder efforts around open science mandates. Learn More

Preprint Server & Review Services

These initiatives focus on the infrastructure and peer review of preprints. Learn More

Reporting and Analytics

Tools and initiatives that help track open access compliance. Learn More

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

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.