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Wikipedia's Wales To Help Make Research Freely Available

The scheme is set to be announced in a speech to the Publishers Association today by universities and science minister David Willetts. It comes in the wake of a growing campaign for open access in academic publishing, as cash-strapped universities face millions of pounds’ costs each year to subscribe to research journals. Wales was brought in earlier this year to become an adviser on how Whitehall could make policy decisions more transparent, and will now advise on a project to set up a gateway to publicly-funded research on the web.

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