UK science to be freely available

This post summarizes a BBC article about funding of journal publishing -

"Under new proposals the government will pay publishers a fee each time a paper is published."

UK science to be freely available - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18860276 - By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News - 16 July 2012.

"The government is to develop plans to make publicly funded research results freely available to all.

Currently, scientists and members of the public have to pay the leading scientific journals to see research that has already been paid for from the public purse.

Under new proposals the government will pay publishers a fee each time a paper is published.

In return the research will be available to those who wish to see it.

The total cost of the subsidy is estimated to be £50m a year which will be taken from funds that would otherwise have been spent on research."

Related article - Berkeley signs up online with Harvard and MIT - By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent - 24 July 2012 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18972376.