NWO wants worldwide covenant open access - UT News

"Funders of research around the world today and tomorrow in the Netherlands. They want to break the power of publishers together, says NWO chairman Jos Engelen. 'Maybe we should call into question all together Nature.' 'It would be nice if all science funders put their money where their mouth and just go demand that future scientific publications in open access appear,' says physicist Jos Engelen, chairman of the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Science Financier NWO does that already. All the results of NWO-funded research should be accessible immediately on publication audience, if necessary in an archive of the university. It may even be an early version of the article, before the peer review . Angels hopes that other donors will follow that example. On that he is going next week to talk with them. Also some publishers slide, because he hopes to convince his ideal ..."