I was just reading about the award given the the EPrints guy, and came across this on El Reg.
Dutch academics declare research free-for-all
By Jan Libbenga
Published Wednesday 11th May 2005 13:06 GMTScientists from all major Dutch universities officially launched a website on Tuesday where all their research material can be accessed for free. Interested parties can get hold of a total of 47,000 digital documents from 16 institutions the Digital Academic Repositories. No other nation in the world offers such easy access to its complete academic research output in digital form, the researchers claim. Obviously, commercial publishers are not amused.
Try it here.
It’s great for me because of al the TPB stuff that goes on over there.