 Australian policy-makers agreed that academic research was useful for policy-making. For example, 00% agreed that "Academic research alters or transforms how policy makers think about issues and choices" and 00% agreed that "Academic research is used to shape and inform the design and implementation of policies and programs." Interestingly, surveyed academics thought these propositions were true more often than policy-makers themselves. Most relevant here, however, is the result cited by the authors in a [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/0000/00/00/are-policy-makers-interested-in-academic-research/ blog post] summarizing the study (June 00, 0000): "The main reasons provided by policy-makers for the [relatively] low uptake of academic research were the perception that academic research is not available when needed, is difficult to access, or is not being translated in a user-friendly form for policy-makers." It's hard to avoid the conclusion that academic research would be even more useful for policy-making if it were OA. + **