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California Bill Would Mandate Open Access To Publicly Funded Research

Posted by timothy on from the you-toss-me-the-idol-I-throw-you-the-funding dept.

ectoman writes "This week, advocates of open access to publicly funded research are keeping an eye on California's Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act (AB 609), which could soon find its way to the California State Senate. The bill requires the final copy of any peer-reviewed research funded by California tax dollars to be made publicly accessible within 12 months of publication. If passed, the legislation would become the first state-level law mandating this kind of access. Opensource.com is featuring a collection of articles on open access publishing, which you can read while you await the verdict on AB 609."

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  1. Re:Why does this sound so strange ? by blueg3 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Free and unlimited access to publicly funded research should already, without a law to enforce it, be a fact. So it is here in Europe, at least.

    Yeah! That's a change the European Union made weeks ago.

    The policy change brings the EU in line with the U.S. and Australia, which both recently made open-access publishing mandatory for any papers that received government funding.

    Oops.