The Scientist :: UK committee backs open access

Anonymous Patron writes BioMedCentral is one place reporting Britain should insist that government-funded researchers deposit a copy of their scientific papers in an electronic archive that can be accessed for free online, an influential committee of politicians said Tuesday.

The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has been investigating science publishing most of this year. Its deliberations drew on an ongoing debate over “open access” to research, whose advocates say that the output from scientific research should be available free of charge.”