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Rapid & Transparent Publishing
Gates Open Research is a platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Enables researchers to publish any research outputs they want to share, supporting reproducibility and transparency
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Uses an open research publishing model: rapid publication followed by open invited peer review
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Includes citations to all supporting data, enabling reanalyses, replication and reuse
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Benefits for Researchers
- Enables authors, not editors, to decide when to make their research available.
- Authors suggest peer reviewers and control the process.
- All types of research can be published rapidly: articles, data sets, null results, protocols, case reports, incremental findings and more.
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Benefits for Research
- Aims to shift the way research and researchers are evaluated.
- Moves away from journal-based measures towards direct assessment of individual outputs.
- Supports research assessment based on the intrinsic value of the research, not the venue of publication.
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Benefits for Society
- Reduces the barrier to collaborative research through data sharing, transparency and attribution.
- Reduces research waste and helps to remove the bias in our understanding of research.
- Enables others to build upon new ideas right away, wherever and whoever they are.
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The Gates Foundation is dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value and everyone deserves the opportunity to lead a healthy and productive life. To solve the challenges of the 21st century, we must accelerate open access to high-quality research on health, education, and economic development. Gates Open Research is designed to ensure that the research we fund can be of immediate benefit to society.