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The policy will apply to all Funded Manuscripts starting January 1, 2025.
It is the foundation’s expectation that Funded Manuscripts shall be shared promptly in the form of a preprint, which is a version of a manuscript hosted on a public server prior to formal peer review, except where the grantee determines that a preprint is not appropriate due to ethical, safety or other legitimate concerns.
This policy also applies to the dissemination of Funded Manuscripts generated by foundation employees.
This policy does not apply to works of opinion, such as ‘white papers’, key learnings reports, policy positions, etc. Such works shall be disseminated in accordance with the terms of the applicable funding agreement with the foundation, but are still encouraged to be as accessible and open as possible.
Our foundation is teaming up with partners around the world to take on some tough challenges: extreme poverty and poor health in developing countries, and the failures of America’s education system. We focus on only a few issues because we think that’s the best way to have great impact, and we focus on these issues in particular because we think they are the biggest barriers that prevent people from making the most of their lives.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to information sharing and transparency. We believe that published research resulting from our funding should be promptly and broadly disseminated. We have adopted an Open Access policy that enables the unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research funded, in whole or in part, by the foundation, including any underlying data sets.
Our Open Access policy contains the following elements:
Publications Are Discoverable and Accessible Online. Publications will be deposited to PubMed Central (PMC), or in another openly accessible repository, with proper metadata tagging identifying Gates funding. In addition to PMC, grantees are encouraged to deposit their accepted article in a subject specific or institutional repository of their choice.
Publication Will Be On “Open Access” Terms. All publications shall be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC BY 4.0) or an equivalent license. This will permit all users of the publication to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and transform and build upon the material, including for any purpose (including commercial) without further permission or fees being required.
Effective as of January 1, 2021, the Foundation shall only pay these fees for articles publishing in fully Open Access journals. Grantees can refer to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) for a comprehensive list.
Publications Will Be Accessible and Open Immediately. All publications shall be available immediately upon their publication, without any embargo period. An embargo period is the period during which the publisher will require a subscription or the payment of a fee to gain access to the publication.
Data Underlying Published Research Results Will Be Accessible and Open Immediately. The foundation will require that data underlying the published research results be immediately accessible and open.
The effective date of the Gates Foundation Policy is January 1, 2015 for all new agreements.
All publications shall be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC BY 4.0) or an equivalent license. This will permit all users of the publication to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and transform and build upon the material, including for any purpose (including commercial) without further permission or fees being required.
Effective as of January 1, 2021, the Foundation shall only pay these fees for articles publishing in fully Open Access journals. Grantees can refer to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) for a comprehensive list.
Data underlying the published research results must be immediately accessible and open.
None.
Publications will be deposited to PubMed Central (PMC), or in another openly accessible repository, with proper metadata tagging identifying Gates funding. In addition to PMC, grantees are encouraged to deposit their accepted article in a subject specific or institutional repository of their choice.