The British government is planning to introduce a service to enable scientific documents available free of charge. The site will initially be articles offering in which the research is paid for by British taxpayers ‘ money.
With the initiative, hopes the British government, later scientific articles that can provide from other cash flows are paid. According to British minister David Willetts, that science in its portfolio, can such a service exist by the money to researchers who publish. It is likely that the British government, with the initiative of creation of scientific journals with free access to encourage.
Critics say that researchers have opportunities to publish articles in scientific journals that are available for free. Proponents of the plan believe, however, that in practice this is not so easy, because a lot of highly rated journals is not free access.
Previously, more than 18,000 scientific articles online which the copyright had expired, but still money was asked for. According to the uploader, its action is an indictment of the scientific publishing system.
Although scientific articles, mainly the goal to have colleagues in the same field to notify you of new results, there is need for access to these articles is often money to be paid. For example, among other things, the major scientific journal Nature, $ 32 per individual article.