Next Gen Open Policies Featured by SPARC

Private philanthropic funders of open research and open scholarly outputs have recently been pushing back against traditional research and output sharing mechanisms. In order to improve the open ecosystem, several have updated their output sharing policies to embrace new publishing innovations, and to codify existing sharing practices. Instead of paying for Article Processing Charges (APCs) to support green OA publishing, funders are requiring researchers to share their outputs using preprint servers, where findings can have immediate reach to the public and the research community.