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Tag Archives: David Willetts
Royal Society Meeting on Open Access in the UK: What Willetts Wants
After all the excitement of open access (OA) developments last Friday, there was a chance to take stock this Monday at the Royal Society’s conference on “Open access in the UK and what it means for scientific research”. The meeting, … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access
Tagged David Sweeney, David Willetts, HEFCE, open access, RCUK, Royal Society, Tom Welton
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UK Government Goes For Broke on Open Access
Well that was quick. Less than a month after the Finch working group published its recommendations on the future of open access, UK science minister David Willetts has responded, saying in effect “Let’s go for it.” The government has taken … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Science & Politics
Tagged David Willetts, open access, Publishing
23 Comments
Access to the Finch Committee on Open Access
The Finch Committee, set up last year by David Willetts to examine how UK-funded research findings can be made more accessible — and mentioned by the minister in his speech on the subject earlier this week — has been meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Science, Science & Politics
Tagged David Willetts, Finch Committee, open access
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Willetts’ Speech on Open Access: Analysis
David Willetts, Britain’s minister for science and universities, trailed the announcements made in his speech on open access to the UK Publishers’ Association yesterday as a ‘seismic shift’. One learns to be wary of the more hyperbolic statements of government ministers … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Science, Science & Politics
Tagged David Willetts, open access, Publishers' Association
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UK Government to lead the world to open access?
The open access buzz around the internet last week was all due to the announcement by senior faculty at Harvard that journal subscription prices were rising at an unsustainable rate and the call to colleagues to devote their publishing energies … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Science, Science & Politics
Tagged David Willetts, Jimmy Wales, open access
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