A short, unsigned story in the August 30 Library Journal describes the "heated debate" on the NIH open-access plan. Excerpt: "Calling a recent proposal by the National Institutes of Health to mandate open access archiving a 'radical new policy' included 'at the eleventh hour' by a U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) last week launched a counteroffensive....Meanwhile, a group of academic libraries and major library organizations joined a coalition to support open access to NIH-funded research. The Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA) is comprised of libraries, patient and health policy advocates, and others who will urge the NIH and Congress to move forward with plans to make the NIH’s publicly-funded research freely accessible online."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/27/2004 07:37:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
