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:dufus decisions by The+End+Of+Days · 2012-01-10 13:12 · Score: -1, Troll

Information doesn't actually want to be free. People like you want free information.
It's the same sort of mistake as saying "reality has a liberal bias" when the truth is actually "liberals have a liberal bias."
Re:Democracy? by Aardpig · 2012-01-10 15:12 · Score: 1, Troll

You Australians are funny. You all walk upside down wearing cork-strung hats, talking about "throwing another snag on the barbie", and fucking sheep and kangaroos. And as shown time and time again, you simply can't resist stereotyping citizens of other nations.

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