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Berkeley Research Impact Initiative

Advancing the Impact of UC Berkeley Research

The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) supports faculty members, post-docs, and graduate students who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication.

An 18-month pilot program, BRII will subsidize, in various degrees, fees charged to authors who select open access or paid access publication. The pilot will also yield data that can be used to gauge faculty interest in — as well as the budgetary impacts of — these new modes of scholarly communication on the Berkeley campus.

Update: Findings from the BRII pilot are available in a recent article in the May 2010 issue of PLoS Biology. In Institutional Open Access Funds: Now Is The Time, authors Eckman and Weil describe how this innovative program has helped to increase the amount of Berkeley research universally accessible to readers by proving funding to pay open access fees.

» Resources about BRII and many other similar funds from the SPARC website

Jan 21, 2008 | Categories: Initiatives | fhelsing

3 comments

Comment from: Penny Ciancanelli [Visitor]

Is there any internal research on efforts by financial managers' viz the serials crisis? It seems that since Barschall, librarians and then some faculty members pioneered the identification and analysis of 'serials crisis'. Since there are well paid members of the administrative staff whose job is 'cost management' and 'cost control', I find it interesting that this type of cost is controlled only through budget limitations rather than challenges to publisher market power.

05/03/08 @ 03:04

Comment from: Essay [Visitor]

Do not agree with - It seems that since Barschall, librarians and then some faculty members pioneered the identification and analysis of 'serials crisis'. I do not see any crisis.

04/21/10 @ 05:47

Comment from: Sammy Henderson [Visitor]

Congratulations on your study. I find this to be very practical in the sense that it will encourage bright authors who endeavor to share their findings for the benefit of us all. Thank you.