The Open Society Institute has launched a grants program inspired by the principles of the Budapest Open Access Iniative. Under the program, OSI will fund institutional memberships in BioMed Central for biomedical research institutions in developing nations. The primary benefit of the BMC membership is the waiver of processing fees for articles accepted at BMC journals. Readers pay nothing to read BMC's open-access journals; employees of grant recipients will also pay nothing to publish in them.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/01/2002 04:16:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
