Congressional Panel Favors Access to Publicly Funded Research
From the news release:

Public access to NIH-funded research took a major step forward this week with Senate Appropriations Committee agreement to direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require that its funded research be made publicly available on the Internet.

This milestone was immediately praised by the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), a coalition of patient groups, researchers, consumers, and libraries that has long called for such a step.

“The momentum is real and Congress understands the public’s interest,” said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, an ATA founding member).

Source: ATA

This entry was posted on Friday, June 29th, 2007 and is filed under Access to Information, Resources for Educators, Scholarly Publishing, Science, Search News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.