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US Research Open Access In Peril
luceth writes "Several years ago, the U.S. National Institutes of Health instituted a policy whereby publications whose research was supported by federal funds were to be made freely accessible a year after publication. The rationale was that the public paid for the research in the first place. This policy is now threatened by legislation introduced by, you guessed it, a Congresswoman who is the largest recipient of campaign contributions from the scientific publishing industry. The full text of the bill, H.R. 3699, is available online."
Well, since all politicians succumb to bribes, the name doesn't really help. The only political party on the planet is "Money Pot", so the shell entity created to represent it doesn't make any difference, and location only makes a difference if politicians care about the people in it (and you can guess my opinion on that score).
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
They are scum, and it's a tragedy the aircraft which hit the Pentagon didn't drill Congress instead.
Al Qaeda would have done the Great Satan a Great Favor.
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