We are pleased to announce our first slate of individual and institutional supporters of the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity, who have endorsed the Compact and encourage universities to become signatories. These supporters include heads of preeminent scholarly organizations, leaders of the open-access movement, and farsighted scholars, including over a dozen Nobel-prize-winning scientists. In addition, a range of institutions — including funding agencies, publishers and publisher associations, and other non-profits — have expressed their support for the Compact. A full list of the current supporters is provided below.
We urge other thought leaders from throughout the academic, funding, and policy worlds to lend their support to this important effort by adding their names and their organization's endorsement to the Compact. To add your support, contact COPE through the web site.
The Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity states a commitment to provide equitable support for an alternative business model for scholarly journals, in which universities and funders pay directly for publisher services rather than for access to articles, enabling access to be freely available to anyone. Open-access journals have already proved their efficacy, but to provide a sustainable business model for such journals, universities need to do their part in committing to their success, as signified by the Compact.
Individual Supporters
Affiliations are presented for identification purposes only. (Nobelists are marked by a medal icon.)
- Mario Capecchi, Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology, University of Utah School of Medicine
- Robert Curl, University Professor Emeritus, Rice University
- Edmond H. Fischer, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, University of Washington
- Alfred Gilman, Chief Scientific Officer, The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
- Paul Greengard, Vincent Astor Professor, Rockefeller University
- Dudley Herschbach, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University
- Roald Hoffmann, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Letters, Cornell University
- Robert Horvitz, David H. Koch Professor of Biology, MIT
- Steven Hyman, Provost, Harvard University
- Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC
- Roger Kornberg, Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine, Stanford University
- Peter Lange, Provost, Duke University
- Kary Mullis, Chief Scientific Officer, Altermune, LLC
- Stanley Prusiner, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
- Stuart Shieber, Welch Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
- Peter Suber, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
- Jack W. Szostak, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- John Wilbanks, Vice President of Science, Creative Commons
- John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor, Stanford University
- Rolf Zinkernagel, Professor of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich
- ...add your support