FOAS works to ensure the continued success of the Journal of Statistical Software (JSS), one of the few major open access journals that is free for both readers and authors. We also promote the use and development of free software for statistics, such as the R language and environment for computational statistics. We encourage the academic community at large to publish reproducible research that is publicly available online, e.g., in an open access journal or on an open access pre-print server.
FOAS is a nonprofit public benefit corporation registered in California, with federal tax-exempt status under Internal Revenue Section 501(c)(3). Contributions to FOAS are deductible under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code, and FOAS is also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Code. The effective date of exemption is September 1, 2012.
