Information Research Weblog

Anyone interested in open access journal publication—and I assume that most readers of Information Research will be interested—my like to wander over to the education pages of the Guardian where they will find an interesting piece on the Wellcome Foundation's decision to require papers reporting research funded by Wellcome to be deposited in an open access archive. As usual, of course, not much space (or rather no space!) is given over to any argument on the pros and cons of archiving versus free open access publishing. So the journal publishers win, one way or another, particularly as the archived items won't be available until six months after publication.