Knowledge-sharing focus for NHMRC as all peer-reviewed publications to become open access

"The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has announced that all scholarly publications backed by the funding agency will be freely available and accessible under a new open-access policy.

The change removes a 12-month embargo on NHMRC-backed research, making all research completed with government funding immediately available at the time of publication. 

Research will also need to be published with an open licence, so the papers can be shared widely. Strengthening the knowledge economy is an important aim for the policy, with a specific goal of increasing the reuse of data beyond making the cutting-edge information simply ‘free to read’...."