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A review of the United Kingdom’s progress towards ‘gold’ open-access research is instructive — for funders, publishers and scientists both at home and abroad.
In 2012, the United Kingdom took a bold leap on open-access publishing, announcing that all research articles produced by its publicly funded scientists should be made free to read. A fine pledge, but three years on, it has experienced some practical difficulties. It is instructive to examine them. 
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