The UK Freedom of Information Act takes effect on January 1, 2005. JISC's Steve Bailey explains what universities should do to prepare for it in a short article, Providing information according to the law, in the December issue of Skills and Education. (PS: If the Act has implications for access to research, Bailey does not mention them. A House of Commons research paper on implementing the new Act makes clear that the Act does not apply to "information accessible by other means", which probably rules out access to eprints of published articles. But what about unpublished data underlying published articles? If any OAN readers think the Act may have implications for research, please post your thoughts to our forum or drop me a line.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/24/2004 08:36:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
