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

[Luis Ibanez]

Hey, why would that be "Off topic"   ?   :-)

Don't we all here have to write, review and read those papers ?
and then try to write code for them...

Thanks for posting it,


     Luis


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Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Taking the risk to post off-topic subject on itk list...could not
> resist beating Luis at the game :)
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> http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/07/2318208
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> "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."
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