As Alex Halavais suggested recently if the NSF insisted that projects it funded publish online it would make a big difference I thought I would point out that in the UK recently the ESRC (a very large UK funder of social science research) among others has announced something close to this, to take effect in a few weeks. http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/Support/access/ It would definitely be worthwhile for readers of this list to check out http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ from time to time. As an aside the British Academy has just come out with a report critical of the way copyright is enforced in the UK (at least insofar as it interferes with academic work). http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2006/09/the-british-academy- joins-the-copyright-wars/ --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)