> "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." I was hoping that the new government might be less star-struck than the previous one. Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose, it would seem. We really don't need Jimmy Wales advising on this. The team behind eprints has been (with minimal funding) developing the technology needed for many years and there are many academics in the UK much better versed in the intricacies of UK academic work and life than Mr Wales. Sigh. I foresee another lost couple of years wasted on this instead of getting to grips with the known problem and the known solution (including providing better funding for eprints development to the team that created it and still does the software engineering for it).
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