rapid access to scientific results including Gates Foundation open access journal

The Gates Foundation will be launching its own open access journal, Gates Open Research.

https://gatesopenresearch.org/

"a platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of research"

The Gates Foundation joins the Wellcome Trust in launching this approach, and they are both using the same underlying platform, F1000.

https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/

(Note that this is in addition to the previous announcement that the Gates Foundation will be paying Science to enable open access to Gates-funded research in what were previously closed-access journals.)

In a Times Higher Education story, Jean-Claude Burgelman suggests the European Commission might also create its own open access journal.

Nature News also covered the story: Gates Foundation announces open-access publishing venture.

These two journals will also gain the capability for open peer review that is part of the F1000 platform.  There is a short blog post on the F1000 site: Gates Open Research: the journey continues.

Related to this announcement there is also a (free) Economist Babbage podcast item on preprints and open peer review

https://soundcloud.com/theeconomist/babbage-ubers-trail-of-woes#t=1:04 (from 1:04 to 7:46)

and (not at all free) - three articles in the Economist:

March 23, 2017 Economist cover item (what the Economist calls a Leader): “Science’s publishing problem” – Leaders consist of a summary article and a more detailed article

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21719480-and-how-cast-them-shackles-scientific-journals

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21719438-about-change-findings-medical-research-are-disseminated-too

It happens that the Economist also did a piece about altmetrics in the same issue (altmetrics aren’t discussed in the podcast)

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21719441-alternative-metrics-extend-concept-citation-beyond-journal

Previously:
February 17, 2017  Many preprint services