Philip Rose posted on July 19, 2012 09:45
The UK government will release plans to make publicly funded scientific research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014, in the most radical shakeup of academic publishing since the invention of the internet.
David Willetts, the universities and science minister, said he expected a full transformation to the open approach over the next two years. Under the scheme, research papers that describe work paid for by the British taxpayer will be free online for universities, companies and individuals to use for any purpose, wherever they are in the world.
