[Oa-italia] Guardian: "Results of publicly funded research will be open access – science minister"
J.C. DE MARTIN
demartin a polito.it
Sab 10 Dic 2011 04:45:45 CET
Results of publicly funded research will be open access – science minister
New policy announced by David Willetts to make research freely available
challenges business models of academic publishers
*
Alok Jha <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alokjha>, science
correspondent
* guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>, Thursday 8 December
2011 11.41 EST
* Article history
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/08/publicly-funded-research-open-access#history-link-box>
The government has signalled a revolution in scientific publishing by
throwing its weight behind the idea that all publicly funded scientific
research must be published in open-access journals <http://www.doaj.org/>.
The policy is in the government document Innovation and Research
Strategy for Growth
<http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/i/11-1387-innovation-and-research-strategy-for-growth.pdf>
published on Monday, which also includes plans for a series of cash
prizes for teams to solve specific scientific challenges and a new £75m
fund for small businesses to develop their ideas into commercial products.
The commitment to making publicly funded research free to access is a
direct challenge to the business models of the big academic publishing
companies,
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist>
which are the gatekeepers for the majority of high-quality scientific
research. Previous attempts by open access publishers to break this
stranglehold over the dissemination of scientific results have largely
failed.
[...]
Continua qui:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/08/publicly-funded-research-open-access
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