Southampton Uni goes Open Access / The Register, 10 Jan 2005

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/10/southampton_academic_research/
Lucy Sherriff
"Southampton University has made all of its academic and scientific research output available for free on the web. The University said the decision marks a new era in Open Access to research in the UK; it will host workshops for other academic institutions thinking of making a similar transition.
Southampton describes the self-archiving project's purpose as 'to make the full text of the peer-reviewed research output of scholars/scientists and their institutions visible, accessible, harvestable, searchable and useable by any potential user with access to the Internet'. This is not a bypass of the traditional publishing mechanism, but another form of access to already published material."