Publish and be redeemed

Helpful and encouraging news on open access scientific publishing (Deus ex macchiato, ibid) from today's Guardian:

The push for open access to publicly funded academic research was boosted yesterday as an umbrella body supported placing subscription journals' articles on the internet for free...

The Medical Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, have all opted to make online archiving a requirement of grants from this October.