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Gates Foundation announces open-access publishing venture

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Global health charity is latest funder to start its own publishing ‘channel’ — and the European Commission is considering its own service.

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    An earlier version of this story attributed the spending on article processing charges solely to the Wellcome Trust. In fact, the money came from the Charity Open Access Fund, of which the Wellcome is a prominent member.

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Butler, D. Gates Foundation announces open-access publishing venture. Nature 543, 599 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.21700

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