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Re:Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available by guy_c on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @09:55AM (#11381469)
This is a good point, but it actually goes further up the chain. The universities in UK, a lot of their funding is driven from publication record of their staff. So they too are just responding to incentives - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Excellence_Framework
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Re:Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available by csperkins on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @10:38AM (#11381752)
The major UK research funding councils have an open access policy for the next REF - http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/openaccess/policy/
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Re:Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available by guy_c on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @12:10PM (#11382501)
Nice, that is good to see.
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