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ananyobon European Union backs open access of research findings

You'd be able to find 3 relevant peer reviewers for each article, get their comments, feed them back to the author, then make sure the article was appropriately amended prior to publication (or rejected if required) for £1 per article? Your time must be very cheap! Or am I missing something?

ananyobon European Union backs open access of research findings

Though it wouldn't be such a bad thing for different countries to compete on!

ananyobon European Union backs open access of research findings

Good point!

ananyobon European Union backs open access of research findings

Oh and to my knowledge no other nation has gone further on open access than the UK to date (not even the US where the NIH mandated submission to open access repository after 12 months).

ananyobon European Union backs open access of research findings

Though the UK has been mulling the policy for quite a while too (as you can see from the links in the story). At least a year. (The UK also enlisted Jimmy Wales to work out its policy in May.)