carlfense Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 This is just common sense. Good news. Deep inside the $1.1 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2014 is a provision that requires federal agencies under the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education portion of the bill with research budgets of $100 million or more to provide the public with online access to the research that they fund within 12 months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. . . . While the government funds a significant chunk of academic research in the United States, most taxpayers do not have access to the results of that research, which is often kept in pay-walled databases controlled by commercial publishers. As the Internet has made it far easier for academics to share their research results, many have pushed for a more open system that allows public sharing of scholarly research commonly called "open access." . . . http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/17/half-of-taxpayer-funded-research-will-soon-be-available-to-the-public/ Link to comment
tschu Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 This is fantastic news! Full open access on the horizon maybe? Always seemed weird to me that private publishers control access to public information Link to comment
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