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<h1><small>Results of publicly funded research will be open
access – science minister</small></h1>
<p id="stand-first" class="stand-first-alone">New policy
announced by David Willetts to make research freely available
challenges business models of academic publishers</p>
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<div class="contributer-full"> <a class="contributor"
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href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alokjha"> Alok Jha</a>,
science correspondent </div>
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<li class="publication"> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/">guardian.co.uk</a>,
<time datetime="2011-12-08T11:41EST" pubdate="">Thursday 8
December 2011 11.41 EST</time> </li>
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<p>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 <a
href="http://www.doaj.org/" title="">open-access journals</a>.</p>
<p>The policy is in the government document <a
href="http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/i/11-1387-innovation-and-research-strategy-for-growth.pdf"
title="">Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth</a>
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.</p>
<p>The commitment to making publicly funded research free to
access is a <a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist"
title="">direct challenge to the business models of the big
academic publishing companies,</a> 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.<br>
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