UCSF Implements Policy to Make Research Papers Freely Accessible to Public

Health Sciences Campus Becomes Largest in Nation to Adopt Open-access Policy

The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, helping to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and scientific journal publishers to restrict access to research results.


Full press release:
http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/05/12056/ucsf-implements-policy-make-research-papers-freely-accessible-public

Full text of policy and supporting documents
http://senate.ucsf.edu/2011-2012/j-lib-openaccess.html

Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research

There is a petition to the Obama Administration to require free access to scientific journal article arising from taxpayer-funded research.  This expands greatly on the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy.  It is 300 signatures short of its 25,000 goal.

See the petition here.