House Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill Includes "Open Access" Language, FASEB News, August 2004 (scroll to p. 4). An unsigned news story. "The FY 2005 House Labor-HHS appropriation bill contained more than just disappointingly low funding levels for NIH. The bill also included report language that would in essence force all NIH funded research to be published in an 'open access' format through the National Library of Medicine (NLM), rather than through the current system of established scientific publications." (PS: The "rather than" is an inexcusable misreading of the NIH plan, which only applies to articles that have been accepted and published in independent, peer-reviewed journals. I doubt that anyone at FASEB reads biology journals this carelessly. So why read the NIH OA plan this carelessly? Or did the unnamed author of this piece understand the plan and choose to "mobilize the base" with misinformation?)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/28/2004 10:29:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
