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Push for open access to research
Internet law professor Michael Geist takes a look at a fundamental shift in the way research journals become available to the public
Last month five leading European research institutions launched a petition that called on the European Commission to establish a new policy that would require all government-funded research to be made available to the public shortly after publication.
That requirement - called an open access principle - would leverage widespread internet connectivity with low-cost electronic publication to create a freely available virtual scientific library available to the entire globe.
Source: BBC News
