UK to science publishers: don't follow recording industry down the tubes (Ars Technica)

The Wellcome Trust isn't waiting for publishers to get with the program, though. It recently partnered with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Max Planck Society to found a fully open access journal calledeLife, and appointed the former head of PNAS as its editor. Just this week, the fledgling journal announced its full editorial team. The first edition is set to launch next year, with all content being released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Read on.