On 09/12/11 16:22, CHARLES OPPENHEIM wrote: > I;ve been expecting someone to post something on this, but no-one has, > so I will! > > Today's Government White Paper commits the Government to requiring that > all outputs from research funded by public sector are made available by OA. > > See > http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/i/11-1387-innovation-and-research-strategy-for-growth.pdf Nice to see "Developer Challenges" being taken up as a route forward by HMG (Exec. Summary 12) :-D The UK is in a health place though... we currently have the facilities for research funded by public sector to be made available by OA.... not in a "seemlessly joined" way, but it *IS* there. The challenge is to use it.... -- Ian Stuart. Developer: Open Access Repository Junction and OpenDepot.org Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team, EDINA, The University of Edinburgh. http://edina.ac.uk/ This email was sent via the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.