Democratic access to academic knowledge | openDemocracy
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"The Coalition Programme [of the new UK government]...pledges that ‘all data published by public bodies’ will be ‘published in an open and standardised format, so that it can be used easily and with minimal cost by third parties’. We would like to see this important legislation extended even further, in order to make other publicly-funded research available online and freely accessible without charge...."