“The UK is losing out on its investment in scientific research to the tune of ¬£1.5bn every year, according to advocates of open access publishing”,The Register reports.”Professor Stevan Harnad from the University of Southampton argues that because of the tradition of locking the results of publicly funded research away in research journals, the scientific community is not as free to build on and develop ideas as it should be.He calculates that if all published work was self-archived (i.e. made available online, after publication in a journal), the research impact would be the equivalent of a further ¬£1.5bn investment in UK science, every year”.The paper here Harnad, S. (2005) Maximising the Return on UK’s Public Investment in Research.

Open access to research worth £1.5bn a year

“The UK is losing out on its investment in scientific research to the tune of ¬£1.5bn every year, according to advocates of open access publishing”,The Register reports.”Professor Stevan Harnad from the University of Southampton argues that because of the tradition of locking the results of publicly funded research away in research journals, the scientific community [...]