Government Makes NIH Research Open Access

TaeKwonDood writes "Let's give some credit to the government when they do something right; in this case freeing $29 billion of taxpayer money in NIH research to actual taxpayers. Within one year after peer review, NIH-funded research has to be made freely available on PubMed. A Democratic Congress passed it and a Republican president signed it. This is a tremendous asset to researchers who don't want to have to duplicate research or pay fees for every journal out there. Those media companies getting rich selling journals, like the ACS, don't like it, but everyone else will."

Comments

Re:No science open source or otherwise without fun

[Anthem1937]

To spare some the RTFA, In the USA, NIH = National Institutes of Health

obmeme

[davidwr]

All your research are belong to allofus.

Re:No science open source or otherwise without fun

[rhyder128k]

Thanks for that (serious). I had presumed that they were the Knights That Say NIH (not so serious).