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Byline: Laura Smith
Laura Smith
Biomedical funders strongly support open access (OA) publishing, according to a survey by an OA publisher.
A poll by open access publisher BioMed Central found that 31 of the 33 funding agencies that responded to a survey of 75 international biomedical funding bodies confirmed they were willing to fund the processing charges for OA publishing.
Around half the respondents were signatories to one of the major international declarations in support of open access, and a similar number had their own official policy in support of the strategy.
BioMed Central publisher Matthew Cockerill said: "It is very encouraging to see a growing number of funders expressing official support for open access, and confirming that they will make funds available to allow authors to publish ...
Source: HighBeam Research, bio-funders back the OA route.