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Giving the public access to research
By Michael Banks
Library users in the UK now have access to hundreds of thousands of journal articles following a new initiative called Access to Research, which was rolled out yesterday.
The two-year pilot programme will allow public-library users in the UK to freely access 8000 journals from 17 publishers including IOP Publishing, which publishes Physics World, as well as Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group and Wiley.
Last year, about 250 libraries from 10 local authorities, the majority of which are in southern England, were involved in testing the programme, with the initiative now being launched nationwide.
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Opening up research
David Willetts speaking at the open-access meeting at the Royal Society.
(Courtesy: Jesse Karjalainen/IOP Publishing)
By Michael Banks
Yesterday I headed to the Royal Society in London to attend a meeting on open access and what it means for scientific research.
From what I heard at the meeting, I was surprised to learn that some scientists were largely unaware of how it could change scientific publishing.
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