"Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is helping a UK government bid to make
the results of Government funded research available freely online.

The move taps into a popular protest at the restrictions which
academic publishers place on the availability of research. From the
article: 'Almost 11,000 researchers have signed up to a boycott of
journals owned by the huge academic publisher Elsevier.

Subscriptions to the thousands of research journals can cost a big
university library millions of pounds each year – costs that have
started to bite as budgets are squeezed. Harvard University,
frustrated by the rising costs of journal subscriptions, recently
encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available
through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep
articles behind paywalls.'"

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When you think "nice" see beaurocrats, = "'tain't gonna 'appen".

In Britain, you can take a horse to water but it isn't your horse.