The UK Medical Research Council adopted an OA mandate in June 2006. At the time you could find it here. But four months later the link was dead and the policy moved here. Now the new link has died too and I can't find the policy's current location. If anyone can point me to it, I'd be grateful.
Meantime, here's the FAQ on the MRC OA mandate. The link to the FAQ works, but even the FAQ continues to use the dead link to the policy statement itself.
Update (12/4/08). The new link, which was live 10 days ago, is dead today. I'll assume the problem is temporary and keep trying. But if anyone knows what the problem is or where the policy has moved this time, please drop me a line.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/22/2008 11:36:00 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.
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.
