Results of publicly funded research will be open access – science minister New policy announced by David Willetts to make research freely available challenges business models of academic publishers * Alok Jha <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alokjha>, science correspondent * guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>, Thursday 8 December 2011 11.41 EST * Article history <http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/08/publicly-funded-research-open-...> The government has signalled a revolution in scientific publishing by throwing its weight behind the idea that all publicly funded scientific research must be published in open-access journals <http://www.doaj.org/>. The policy is in the government document Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth <http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/i/11-1387-innovation-an...> published on Monday, which also includes plans for a series of cash prizes for teams to solve specific scientific challenges and a new £75m fund for small businesses to develop their ideas into commercial products. The commitment to making publicly funded research free to access is a direct challenge to the business models of the big academic publishing companies, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murd...> which are the gatekeepers for the majority of high-quality scientific research. Previous attempts by open access publishers to break this stranglehold over the dissemination of scientific results have largely failed. [...] Continua qui: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/08/publicly-funded-research-open-...