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The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers have issued a joint statement in support of free online access to scientific data
A poll by open access publisher BioMed Central found that 31 of the 33 funding agencies responding to a survey confirmed they were willing to fund the processing charges for open access publishing. Full story is here
Publisher 'open choice' is here to stay according to this posting on EPrints Insiders. A collection of policies by scientific funding agencies regarding the archiving and posting of publications resulting from funded projects is listed here.
