Australian Research Council poised to join open-access movement

The Australian Research Council is preparing to change its funding rules to mandate open-access publishing for the research it funds.

In a statement to Research Australia & NZ, Research Europe’s sister publication, Adam Byrne, chief executive of the ARC, says the council is planning to follow the example of the National Health and Medical Research Council. The NHMRC announced earlier this year that all the researchers it funds must add their outputs to an open-access repository within 12 months of publication.