[open-science] UK science to be open access

Mark Wainwright mark.wainwright at okfn.org
Wed Jul 18 14:09:13 UTC 2012


The UK government plans to make all publicly-funded science open
access, accepting the recommendations of the Finch report:

http://www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2012/Jul/government-to-open-up-publicly-funded-research

On a related note, Research Councils UK (RCUK) have published a new
Open Access policy:

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2012news/Pages/120716.aspx


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Mark Wainwright, CKAN Community Co-ordinator
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