Just a note to those who receive grant support from national funding  
agencies for their research: the History of Economics Working Paper  
Series will fulfill granting council guidelines that require  
researchers to make freely available the results of publicly supported  
research. While most journals copyright the copyedited version of  
their manuscripts, the "working" version can usually be posted.

Granting councils around the world are in the process of moving  
towards a system in which all publicly-funded research must be made  
freely available within six months of publication.

The Canadian granting councils have adopted this as policy; the health  
funding council (CIHR) already requires it of their researchers, the  
natural sciences and engineering council (NSERC) is about to come on  
board, and the social science council (SSHRC) is dragging its feet but  
will eventually implement this requirement.

The EU is, according to the Canadian councils, somewhere in the  
process of implementing similar regulations. I don't know about the  
Americans or the rest of the world.

My point is -- this fulfills the requirement.

Evelyn Forget