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<p>Taxpayer-funded science papers should be made free to access within six months of publication, according to a
<a href="http://www.openscholarship.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-03/rcuk_proposed_policy_on_access_to_research_outputs.pdf">
draft policy</a> from Research Councils UK (RCUK), the umbrella body for the UK’s seven research councils (government-funded grant agencies).
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<p>The papers should not only be made free to read, but should also have a liberal publishing licence (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/">Creative Commons CC-BY</a>), which would make their content free to
<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/trouble-at-the-text-mine-1.10184">text-mine</a> or otherwise re-use, subject to proper attribution.
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<p><span style="color:black">And if necessary, scientists should spend some of their research grants, or other grants for university overheads, to pay publishers to make the work public.</span>
<span style="color:#E36C0A">Read more</span>: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/03/uk-research-funders-suggest-liberated-open-access-policy.html<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
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