Open Sesame for Open Access | China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China

"Following on the heels of efforts of the United States in early 2013 to increase access to federally funded research,  the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Natural Science Foundation of China have announced on May 15 that from now on all research produced by scientists at CAS and all papers produced by NSFC grants must be archived in open access databases within one year of publication.   The development has been widely reported in the trade press, such as Chemistry World and Nature.  These magazines also report that the Ministry of Science and Technology may take a similar approach with respect to their funded research ..."