Is there a way to make all academic literature accessible to all? New thinking on open access | Chief Scientist

On August 29, Australia's Chief Scientist released her advice to government on Open Access models. She proposed the 'public access model'.

'Under the public access model, open access agreements to research literature would be brokered with the publishers, big and small, through a single national negotiating body, and the agreements would extend access beyond the academic community to the wider Australian public. My model is simple, but ambitious.'