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The first of April this year is a significant date for researchers here in the UK. It’s when a [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2012news/Pages/120716.aspx new policy comes into place], beginning a journey towards open access (OA) for publicly funded research.
The first of April this year is a significant date for researchers here in the UK. It’s when a [http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2012news/Pages/120716.aspx new policy comes into place], beginning a journey towards open access (OA) for publicly funded research.
This is a top-down policy from the Government’s (via the [http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/ Finch Report]), the Research Councils, and other funding bodies, but it follows years of campaigning by a grass-roots movement of academics and librarians. Open Access made headlines last year in what the Guardian dubbed “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Spring the Academic Spring]”, when many academics started a boycott of journals that lock research papers behind a “paywall”.
This is a top-down policy from the Government (via the [http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/ Finch Report]), the Research Councils, and other funding bodies, but it follows years of campaigning by a grass-roots movement of academics and librarians. Open Access made headlines last year in what the Guardian dubbed “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Spring the Academic Spring]”, when many academics started a boycott of journals that lock research papers behind a “paywall”.


The official policy is a huge step forward for open access in the UK, and comes at a time when the European Commission has [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/era-communication-towards-better-access-to-scientific-information_en.pdf announced its own OA policy]. Just in the last few weeks the White House [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research announced a new policy] to make the reports of taxpayer-funded research openly available.
The official policy is a huge step forward for open access in the UK, and comes at a time when the European Commission has [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/era-communication-towards-better-access-to-scientific-information_en.pdf announced its own OA policy]. Just in the last few weeks the White House [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research announced a new policy] to make the reports of taxpayer-funded research openly available.
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