Researchers of the UvA can no longer obtain funding from the Open Access fund.
The consequences of the closure of the fund are:
All honoured applications will be paid for.
Requests will no longer be granted.
The settlement with BMC will not be extended. Articles which have been submitted before May 7, 2009 stating the BMC membership account of the UvA will be granted. Articles which are submitted after May 7, 2009 can unfortunately not be granted; the costs of these articles must be paid by the author(s) or the department.
The discount of PLOS will be maintained in 2009 as the membership for 2009 has been paid for.
The UvA's Open Access was active from 2007- May 2009. Due to a precarious financial situation the UvA has decided that the OA fund will not be extended after 2009....
Comment. This is a sad casualty of the recession, which is affecting OA and TA resources alike. In my predictions for 2009, I thought this might happen ("It will be harder than ever...to launch or replenish funds to pay publication fees at fee-based OA journals..."), even though, as access declines, the recession will simultaneously strengthen the case for OA.
Also see our post on the launch of the Amsterdam fund in January 2007.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/25/2009 12:27:00 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.
