UK research councils claim success for open-access publishing plan

[摘要] Opponents of the current system of scientific publishing have called for all publicly-funded research to be made available in free-to-access journals or archives. Academic publishers fear that libraries will cancel their subscriptionsif papers are made available for free. A policy drawn up by Britain's research councils, which distribute most government science funding, requires all council-funded papers be put in an open-access archive as soon as possible after publication. But, following complaints from publishers, the policy was changed to make papers subject to the publisher's existing copyright and licensing arrangements.