Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Explores Open Access to Published Research
UC Davis, University Library and the California Digital Library will lead a major new project, with an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to help define the future of open access to scholarship.
“Providing access to published research is increasingly unaffordable, even for the wealthiest institutions, and the information that this project will develop is critical to help the research community continue to provide access to research results in an open access future,” said MacKenzie Smith, UCD university librarian and lead investigator of the project....