An organisation like Gates Foundation has goals that benefit greatly when they have as many publishing mechanisms as possible. I look at it from a game-theoretic perspective. If, as a high-status funding source, they can send a signal to scientists that their work will have no other barrier to access than access to the Internet, then whatever is published there is signal in favour of the idea that scientists and students from all walks of life will get to learn without any unnecessary costs.

Publishers like Elsevier have a strange business model that involves taking a product paid for by taxpayers (or donors), taking the volunteer work of reviewers, and charging the future students of the resulting knowledge a high price. It's a huge bottleneck contributing to a slow growth of the number of self-motivated research-oriented students all over the world.

On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, 06:39 Martin Gicheru via kictanet, <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Interesting choice of news source. Onto the topic, I wonder, do they limit the number of publications they can publish on, thus meaning if they limit themselves to some that don't have open access they'd disadvantage themselves?

Regards,
Martin Gicheru

On 15 Jan 2017 22:30, "Phares Kariuki via kictanet" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
http://www.nature.com/news/gates-foundation-research-can-t-be-published-in-top-journals-1.21299

Interesting development

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Phares

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