Historians Warn Minister: Hands Off Our Academic Freedoms

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Historians Warn Minister: Hands Off Our Academic Freedoms

Posted at 11:14AM Monday 28 Jan 2013

Respected academics and public figures have joined forces to combat what they claim is an "attack on academic freedoms" contained within the government's plans for open access to research.

The Royal Historical Society, whose fellows include professors David Starkey and Ian Kershaw, is spearheading the fightback against radical plans backed by David Willetts, the universities minister. Willetts plans to make publicly funded research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014, in the most thoroughgoing shakeup of academic publishing since the internet.

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