"This initiative is most likely to result in a central repository that will
host all research articles that result from public funding."
Why use the existing distributed system of institutional repositories when you
can waste even more public money on a huge centralised IT project?
Rob.
From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Richard Poynder
Sent: 02 May 2012 10:23
To: goal at eprints.org
Subject: [GOAL] Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme
"The [UK] government has drafted in the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to help
make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online to
anyone who wants to read or use it."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/01/wikipedia-research-jimmy-wales-online
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