In my post last week about the OA mandate at the European Research Council (ERC), I couldn't tell whether ERC would continue its previous policy to pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals:
The ERC's March 2007 grant guidelines make clear (pp. 12, 35) that when grantees submit their work to fee-based OA journals, ERC is willing to pay the publication fees. But the new document [on the OA mandate from January 2008] is silent on the subject. Do the older grant guidelines stand, because not modified here? Or is ERC silently rescinding its willingness to pay publication fees?
I'm happy to report that the ERC will continue to pay publication fees. (Thanks to the ERC-UK via Matthew Cockerill.) From the latest ERC Guide for [Grant] Applicants, December 27, 2007, p. 16:
Eligible...direct and indirect costs
Direct eligible costs are those which support all the research, management, training and dissemination activities necessary for the conduct of the project, such as....Publication Costs (page charges and related fees for publication of results)....
This version of the Guide will apply at least until Summer 2008.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/18/2008 02:05:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
