Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_06_06_fosblogarchive.html#a108670077944445512 (Posted by Peter Suber at 9:10 AM, Tuesday June 8 2004)
Australia wants to make govt-funded research more accessible The presentations from the conference, Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and Communication Environment (Canberra, June 1, 2004) are now online. http://www.humanities.org.au/NSCF/current.htm Quoting from the June 5 press release on the conference: "The Government believes that it has a major policy interest in improving the accessibility of research. It is therefore decided to pursue the agendas of making research quality more apparent, and research results more accessible, in parallel....In terms of accessibility of research the NSCF [National Scholarly Communications Forum] constituents will work with international partners on a number of fronts especially to develop the concept of 'public funding, public knowledge, public access'." http://www.humanities.org.au/NSCF/Press%20release.pdf Peter Suber ------------------------------------------------------------------- Prior American Scientist Open Access Forum Threads on this Topic: "University policy mandating self-archiving of research output" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3438.html "Australia gives $12 million to support open access" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3098.html "May 29 article in The Australian" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2079.html
