Ponca City, We Love You writes "Congress is expected to vote this week on a bill requiring investigators funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to publish research papers only in journals that are made freely available within one year of... ...full story at slashdot
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Congress's copyright fight puts open access science in peril » digg The US House of Representatives is considering legislation that will roll back a policy that provides the public access to the research it has funded via the National Institutes of Health. In hearings on the new bill, references to Napster and overseas... |
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Congress May Kill NIH Open Access Research Rules » slashdot Savuka writes "A policy that mandates public, open access to all National Institutes of Health research is in danger. The House of Representatives is considering legislation that would change the open access policy to make it more publisher-friendly,... |
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Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone » slashdot ocean_soul writes "Last week the free and open access repository for scientific (mainly physics but also math, computer sciences...) papers arXiv got past 500,000 different papers, not counting older versions of the same article. Especially for physicists... |
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Government Makes NIH Research Open Access » slashdot TaeKwonDood writes "Let's give some credit to the government when they do something right; in this case freeing $29 billion of taxpayer money in NIH research to actual taxpayers. Within one year after peer review, NIH-funded research has to be made freely... |
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US ban on internet access tax gets seven year extension » the register (uk) But the option's still open A ban on taxing internet access and email will almost certainly become law in the US. Both houses of Congress have approved an extension to the existing law, and President George Bush is expected to sign the bill within days.… |
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