[Insight-users] [Off topic] Bill to Require Open Access to Scientific Papers

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Taking the risk to post off-topic subject on itk list...could not
resist beating Luis at the game :)



http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/07/2318208

"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 publication. Until now, repeated efforts
to legislate such a mandate have failed under pressure from the
well-heeled journal publishing industry and some nonprofit scientific
societies whose educational activities are supported by the profits
from journals that they publish. Scientists assert that open access
will speed innovation by making it easier for them to share and build
on each other's findings. The measure is contained in a spending bill
that boosts the biomedical agency's effective budget by 3.1%, to $29.8
billion in 2008. The open-access requirement in the bill would apply
only during fiscal year 2008; it would need to be renewed in yearly
spending bills in the future."


-- 
Mathieu