Maggie Fox, Hiding Genome Data Won't Protect Us, Experts Say, Reuters, Sept. 9. 2004. More on the NRC-appointed committee that advocates maintaining open access to germ genome information. Dr. Stanley Falkow, the committee chair, comments: "The sum total of information we get from the study of all pathogens is what we need to really be able to understand and hopefully learn how to outwit these disease agents."
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Garrett at 9/10/2004 11:06:00 AM.
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.