OA and Research Funders: A Report on Challenges, Opportunities, and Collaboration

[Timothy Vollmer]

Hey all:

Here's an interesting report-back from a meeting convened by SPARC and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on open access challenges and opportunities for research funders. It is focused primarily on private philanthropic funding, but discusses the connection with public funding too. 

http://sparcopen.org/news/2016/philanthropic-organizations-convened-to-discuss-open-access-expansion/

PDF of report: http://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/RWJF-SPARC-public-report.pdf

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