The Research Councils UK (RCUK) have publicly announced that they have agreed on an OA policy but are not yet ready to make the policy itself public. Here's the entirety of yesterday's announcement: 'RCUK has agreed [on] a position statement on access to and dissemination of the outputs of research funded by the Research Councils. This information was circulated to Vice-Chancellors in March, to give them an opportunity to comment before the document is finalised. RCUK expect to formally release the statement in its definitive form in mid-May 2005.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/20/2005 02:51:00 PM.
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.
