Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to take part in scheme to make research freely available online

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to take part in a Government initiative to make all taxpayer-funded research in Britain freely available online.

The scheme is set to be announced in a speech to the Publishers Association today by universities and science minister David Willetts.
It comes in the wake of a growing campaign for open access in academic publishing, as cash-strapped universities face millions of pounds’ costs each year to subscribe to research journals

Mr Willetts wrote in a newspaper: “Giving people the right to roam freely over publicly funded research will usher in a new era of academic discovery and collaboration, and will put the UK at the very forefront of open research.”

Mr Wales was brought in earlier this year to become an adviser on how Whitehall could make policy decisions more transparent, and will now advise on a project to set up a gateway to publicly-funded research on the web.

Mr Willetts wrote in the Guardian: “Jimmy Wales can make sure that we maximise the collaborative potential, the added value from that portal.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/jimmy-wales/9240194/Wikipedia-founder-Jimmy-Wales-to-take-part-in-scheme-to-make-research-freely-available-online.html

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