Erika Check, All parties on edge as NIH delays open-access briefing, Nature 433, 182 (20 January 2005). (Access restricted to subscribers.) A news article considers the postponement of NIH's announcement of its open access policy. "Sources close to Congress and the NIH speculated that the White House had scuttled the NIH announcement over concerns that the issue would complicate the confirmation hearings of Mike Leavitt, whom President George Bush has nominated as health secretary. Those hearings were set to be held on 18 and 19 January. But some questioned this explanation, which wasn't officially confirmed. This has left each side of the open-access debate worrying that the policy may now be revised in favour of their opponents."
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Garrett at 1/19/2005 03:24:00 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.
