RCUK now specify that you must publish open-access as a condition of grants.
But it's a fuck-up, because most totally open access journals are, well, shit.

There's a compromise whereby you can pay to have your papers free-access in a non-free journal, but then the academic group is paying about £3K so others can read the work for free, so understandably most groups don't do that.

The problem is, well, the journal has to make money somehow.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 24 Sep 2012, 10:01, Reply)