Paying it Forward

July 14, 2015 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Paying it Forward

The UC Davis University Library and the California Digital Library are leading a new project to help define the future of open access to scholarship. The Davis Enterprise brought this information to us in their article, “UCD gets grant to look at open access to published research.”

“Pay It Forward: Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open Access Article Processing Charges for Large North American Research Institutions” is a year-long effort to study the implications of new funding models for scholarly communications and determine their sustainability for research universities in the United States and Canada.

The project partnership includes three major research libraries — Harvard University, Ohio State University, and the University of British Columbia — as well as the ten University of California campuses. Together they will create a detailed, flexible, and publicly available financial model to help university administrators and librarians develop open access policies and strategies. Research libraries are especially excited by the prospect of free open access to scholarly journals.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.