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Howard Hughes unveils open-access policy

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a powerful US research funder, is the country’s second major player to mandate that the research it pays for must be free to read on publication. HHMI joins the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in supporting Plan S, a European-led open-access initiative. HHMI’s new policy states that from 2022, its scientists must either make papers open access or deposit their accepted manuscripts in a repository openly under a liberal publishing licence.

Nature | 4 min read
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The non-profit organization, based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, is only the second US funder to insist on immediate open access, after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. As part of the policy change, HHMI has joined the coalition of funders and organizations behind Plan S, a European-led initiative that is pushing for research to be immediately accessible on publication, and is supported by national research agencies and charitable organizations such as the Wellcome Trust and the Gates foundation. The HHMI’s shift is a boost to Plan S, and having more US-based funders on board will help build momentum towards open access, says Peter Suber, director of the Harvard Open Access Project and the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication in Cambridge, Massachusetts.