Australia to make health research open access • The Register
abernard102@gmail.com 2012-03-08
Summary:
“While America seriously considers the insane Research Works Act (banning the open publication of publicly-funded research), Australia is moving in the other direction. Its National Health and Medical Research Council has announced that all funded research will be made available to the public starting July... While Australia’s public research is not under the same attack as is taking place in the USA, the question of open access to academic research is a growing debate. Australian researchers are lining up with their international peers in opposing the dominance of Elsevier in academic publishing. The NHMRC is a major player in Australia’s scientific research, allocated nearly $AU800 million in the 2011-2012 budget...”