The U.S. unit of Reed Elsevier Group PLC spent $790,000 in the first quarter to lobby...the U.S. federal government on...[many issues including] public access to the National Institutes of Health and more....
In the January-to-March period, the company lobbied Congress, NIH and the Health and Human Services Department, according to the report filed April 17 with the House clerk's office.
Comment. All we have are good arguments.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/04/2008 05:55:00 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.