Three cheers for the Dutch! As the Register reports, "Scientists from all major Dutch universities officially launched a website on Tuesday where all their research material can be accessed for free. Interested parties can get hold of a total of 47,000 digital documents from 16 institutions the Digital Academic Repositories. No other nation in the world offers such easy access to its complete academic research output in digital form, the researchers claim. Obviously, commercial publishers are not amused." Personally, I don't care whether they are amused. I just went through a process where it took more time to clear copyright forms to publish a paper than it did to actually write the paper. A waste of my time and your money. My recommendations to the National Research Council that we set up an eprints repository (made again at a meeting just last week) continue, meanwhile, to go unheeded.CRLF
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