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Open Access Ventures

This page is dedicated to sharing the fun and exciting parts of Open Access extending from policy. 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 …

Payment of Publishing Fees

Since January 1st, 2025 the Gates foundation discontinued support for individual article publishing fees, such as APCs. By discontinuing to support Open Access fees, we can work to address inequities in current publishing models and reinvest the funds elsewhere. Payment alternatives to explore: Grantees should not pay fees out of their budget or seek reimbursement …

Data Sharing Requirements

What are the requirements for the Open Access Policy source data? The Open Access Policy requires that the data underlying published research results will be accessible and open immediately. The following overview focuses on data underlying published research. Activities around pre-publication data planning, collection, analysis, storage, sovereignty, informed consent, interoperability, and the use of disciplinary …

Share Your Paper via OA.Works

The foundation has partnered with OA.Works to simplify open access compliance for grantees authors. The process is easy and completely free. By depositing your accepted manuscript in an open repository, you will enable equitable access and ensure compliance. Data submitted in the above form will be sent to a third-party service, OA.Works/Share Your Paper. Any …

How to Comply

Effective January 1st, 2025, all grantees are required to post their funded manuscript as a preprint in a recognized preprint server. All preprints must be freely available and openly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) or equivalent terms to allow others to build on and reuse the research. Here’s how to ensure …