As the World's research institutions come round to the idea of freely available research - is the UK about to lose its open access lead? With the announcement that University College London has adopted the UK's 22nd - and the world's 84th - mandate to make all of its research output open access, it is clear that the United Kingdom continues to lead the world in open access. With its 13 funder mandates and 9 institutional/departmental mandates so far, the UK still has the planet's highest proportion of open access mandates. But the rest of the world is catching up.
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