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Academic publishing 学术出版 Free-for-all 自由竞争 Open-access scientific publishing is gaining ground 科学出版的开放存取已逐渐被人们所接受 AT THE beginning of April, Research Councils UK, a conduit through which the governmenttransmits taxpayers money to academic researchers, changed the rules on how the resultsof studies it pays for are made public. 四月初，英国研究理事会一个由政府向学术研究者提供资金机构-改变了它的一项规则：即该机构提供资助的一些研究成果是否可以自由出版。 From now on they will have to be published injournals that make them available freepreferably immediately, but certainly within a year. 从今后，这些成果将必须在期刊上自由，免费发表最好是结果出来后立即出版，但是出版时间最迟不能超过一年。 In February the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told federal agencies tomake similar plans. 今年二月，白宫科学和技术政策办公室也要求联邦机构做出与之相类似的计划。 A week before that, a bill which would require free access to government-financed researchafter six months had begun to wend its way through Congress. | 
