UK mirror for PubMed Central

The BMJ reports moves to set up a UK mirror of PubMed Central (PMC). The mirror would make available peer reviewed research funded by the funding partners (MRC, BBSRC, DoH, Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation), as well as the content of PMC itself. PMC is an online archive of freely available peer reviewed papers in biomedical sciences and many renowned journals make their back files available through it. There is also a news item in Science (308:623, 29th April) about European developments in open access publishing, which talks about this, among other things.

The Guardian, on Wednesday 11th, reports on this also.