"It’s one thing to say you support open-access publishing. It’s another to provide authors with a pot of money to actually pay for it." So notes SPARC e News in a story about the University of California Berkeley new pilot program that provides up to $3000 to faculty, post-doc, and graduate students to cover publication charges for open-access journals. UC-Berkeley joins the University of North Caroline-Chapel Hill and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in covering fee charges to encourage faculty to publish in open access venues, increasing access to and impact of their research.
Posted by stemp003 at May 16, 2008 1:03 PM