New Bill Would Repeal NIH Open Access Policy

pigah writes "The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act has been reintroduced into Congress. The bill will ban open access policies in federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These policies require scientists to provide public access to their work if it has been funded with money from an agency with an open access policy. Such policies ensure that the public has access to read the results of research that it has funded. It appears that Representative John Conyers (D-MI), the author of the bill, is doing the bidding of publishing companies who do not want to lose control of this valuable information that they sell for exorbitant fees thereby restricting access by the general public to an essentially public good."

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Re:Why are they so easyly bought or manipulated

[Quiet_Desperation]

I voted for the Dem's this time around, but they're just as bad

Some of this have been saying this for years, but we get dismissed as "libertards" even if we say we think the Libertarian party is too extremist. And this much of this sort of schoolyard behavior comes from people with advanced degrees. So many of them are progressives who seem to think even a healthy distrust of concentrated power (government) is some sort of insanity. If you press them on it, you might get some hand waving about "yes, yes, we need to do something or other about waste and mumble mumble...", but you can tell they just don't give a shit about anything other than sticking religiously to the ideological line.

So, we get trillion dollar bailouts no one has actually read, and (here in California) tax increases in the middle of a near depression without a *single* layoff off a government employee. And they call *me* insane for asking for more oversight and a less corruption.