Hello All,

As you might know WMF has an Open Access Policy that requires all work that they fund to be Open Access[1]. A strange consequence of this policy, that I recently ran into, is that it requires researchers funded by grants to publish OA -- but without providing any funding to do so. That is, I recently completed an Individual Engagement Grant (IEG), part of whose scope was explicitly to write a paper about the work[2], and when I wrote to WMF to acquire funds for OA publishing, they confirmed that the paper was under the OA mandate but indicated that funds were not available to pay for OA publishing.

Has anyone else use WMF's Open Access Policy?  What was your experience?

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index#Activities

Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/

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