Change can be quite slow in this space and this is why we feel we can take risks that others can’t or won’t. We have a decade of data, learning, and research that went into our strategy and Open Access policy refresh. We know that there is a cost to publishing and that our refreshed approach is not a sustainable solution. Yet, neither is continuing to use our funding to support inequitable models. Unless we divest from such models we cannot explore and test others such as Diamond Open Access or Subscribe to Open. We have also seen that long transition periods do not lead to quick or lasting change. Our commitment is to make this pivot as painless as possible for our grantee authors.
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