November 26, 2004

British Government Rejects Call to Support Open-Access Publishing

By DANIEL ENGBER

The British government has rejected most of the recommendations by a parliamentary committee that favors making the results of state-supported scientific research freely available.

The committee released a report in July supporting that approach, known as open access, as a remedy for journals' increasing subscription prices and for the growing restrictions on access to publicly financed research. In a response dated November 1, the government asserted that it "is not aware that there

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