CSIRO to embrace open access

[The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.] “THE CSIRO is making freely available 200,000 research papers dating back to the 1920s on its new, open-access repository. It is also creating a portal to contain most of the raw research data used by the organisation since its inception. ‘It's a massive job. We will eventually have 86 years of data in the repository,’ said Jon Curran, CSIRO's general manager of communications...”