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."

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Re:Just to play devil's advocate here...

[IgnoramusMaximus]

Shouldn't all nations, no matter how small their medical research budget, share whatever they can?

Lo and behold, they already do. US and some of the US-influenced Western countries are the only ones under the spell of boundless greed who play the "Intellectual Property" games in this vicious manner. But it is changing. I am not sure which side will win this because the pressure to make everything a money-making opportunity for the top 1% of the world's population is increasing exponentially. I am sure NIH will be beaten soon into reversing this decision.