[LINK] UK publicly funded research free to read

[Tom Worthington]

On 24/12/11 01:27, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> ... UK to make publicly funded research free to read 09 December 2011 by Andrew Purcell  ...
> http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/i/11-1387-innovation-
> and-research-strategy-for-growth.pdf

The Australian Research Council encourages, but does not require, Open 
Access publishing of results and data: 
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php?fPersistentID=15

One issue here is who will pay for paper publication. If the cost of 
publication is not covered by subscriptions, then the next most obvious 
source is the authors. That is you have to pay to have your paper 
published. This happens for conferences already, as the proceedings are 
covered in conference fees.

Paper versus on-line publishing is a non-issue in terms of academic 
status. For years ACS has been publishing conference proceedings, with 
conferences paying the cost and paper copies as an option: http://crpit.com/

Another option is advertising, which appears in some research journals.

The issue of open access for publications seems to me to be just about 
settled, with open access becoming accepted. The new frontier is access 
to data the research is based on. Some disciplines, such as astronomy, 
freely share their data, whereas others do not.


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