... This list of expected costs is one of the outstanding elements on the plan of action the WHO secretariat had been tasked with completing by this week’s Executive Board meeting. The board, which advises and makes recommendations to the annual WHO World Health Assembly, is meeting from 19 to 27 January. ...
Funding for the OA element is included with costs to establish public health libraries; from the WHO document:
2.4(a) promote the creation and development of accessible public health libraries in order to enhance availability and use of relevant publications by universities, institutes and technical centers, especially in developing countries
Time frame: 2008-2015
Estimated funding needs in U.S. dollars: 42,210,000, plus share of subtotal in support unit costs
2.4(b) promote public access to the results of government funded research, by strongly encouraging that all investigators funded by governments submit to an open access database an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts
Time frame: 2008-2015
Estimated funding needs in U.S. dollars: Included in 2.4(a), plus share of subtotal in support unit costs
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 1/23/2009 12:54:00 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.
