During my vaccation a lot of stuff has been happened and it was just for today that I came along the following article and discussion: http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/. Yes you read correctly the royal society wants to create open access to all publications financed by the British government. What a big step! Congratulation to all British people for being such a role model.
It fits perfectly to my project related work and other discussions I was joining e.g.
- Open Access and bycott of Elsevier
- Why education is a human right
- Open Education a sucess story for africa
Even though this development is very good to see I am not happy about how the following discussion is going on about models how to fulfill the goals from the royal society.
Neelie Kroes from the European comission posted a really nice answer!
I am glad to see this step forward. After my successful submission of Graphity and reading the copyright form of IEEE which I had to sign I really did have concerns publishing my work with them.
I am still considering not submitting to big journals and conferences anymore but just publishing on my universities website, my blog and/or on open preprint archives.