Tuesday 15 April 2014

Nature News: Funders punish open-access dodgers

For years, two of the world’s largest research funders — the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom — have issued a steady stream of incentives to coax academics to abide by their open-access policies.
Now they are done with just dangling carrots. Both institutions are bringing out the sticks: cautiously and discreetly cracking down on researchers who do not make their papers publicly available.

http://www.nature.com/news/funders-punish-open-access-dodgers-1.15007

Will data be next?