NIH Proposes to Open Tax-Funded Research

Johnny Mnemonic writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the NIH "has proposed a major policy change that would require all scientists who receive funding from the agency to make the results of their research available to the public for free." Scientific magazines are screaming, fearing that their subscriptions would diminish--but the common sense nature of the proposal is hard to refute. Why should Americans who funded the research with their tax dollars have to pay again to read the research? Particularly since the web makes pubishing said information inexpensive."

Comments

I love it

[eric76]

I was trying to electronically access some reasearch journals the other day.

My access to those journals should be covered, but because of an authentication problem, the proxy server was not handling the connection.

Without the proxy server the journals wanted something like $30 just to read a single research paper.

This is a move in the right direction.

[Dr. Zowie]

You paid for the research, you should have access to it.