We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ensure that scientific research which has been funded through taxation, is published open access.
Comments.
The petition is hosted on the E-Petitions section of the Prime Minister's site. For the avoidance of doubt, this doesn't imply the endorsement of the government; but presumably the government pays more attention to petitions hosted on its own site than somewhere else. Signatures are limited to UK citizens and residents.
The petition seems to argue for a holistic, government-wide policy on public access. Several UK funding agencies have already adopted mandatory OA policies for grantees.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 9/15/2008 03:57:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
