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Rolling Back Gold Open Access in the UK

Rolling Back Gold Open Access in the UK | Everything open | Scoop.it
The UK government's Business, Innovation and Skills Committee issued a report this week that offers a harsh rebuke to the RCUK's proposed plans to drive the adoption of Open Access (OA) publishing ...
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When the Data hits the Fan!: UK Government promotes Open Data - a public good but where is the money?

When the Data hits the Fan!: UK Government promotes Open Data - a public good but where is the money? | Everything open | Scoop.it

A debate was held at The Royal Society on 10th July, 2013 titled Maximising the use of public data – should research and publicly acquired data be made more accessible? At this debate David Willetts MP and Minister of State for Universities and Science gave his strong support for Open Data and stated that "the public have a right to access publicly funded research".

This blog post gives details of the debate with links to the resources available from the organisers The Foundation for Science and Technology. It also asks the question: is this an unfunded mandate?

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UK government culture holding back open source adoption

UK government culture holding back open source adoption | Everything open | Scoop.it
Steve Nice, CTO at Reconnix, the open source ecosystem company, assesses the current state of open source adoption in the public sector (UK #government #culture holding back #opensource adoption http://t.co/vYAodAFube...
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