US Research Open Access In Peril

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @11:37AM from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

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."

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Re:US Research Open Access only in Perl by Demonoid-Penguin · 2012-01-10 11:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I read that as: US Research Open Access only in Perl
Bloody Larry and his language monopoly... oh sorry, I was all caught up in this Google hate thing.
Carry on.