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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Tom Cech on OA

Tom Cech, A Standard for Openness, HHMI Bulletin, May 2007.  Cech is the President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  (Thanks to Mark Patterson.) 

On the HHMI data-sharing and OA policies, including HHMI's March agreement to pay Elsevier for deposits into PubMed Central.

I'd blog an excerpt but HHMI locked the PDF and turned off cutting and pasting. (Why?)  For my take on the HHMI-Elsevier agreement, see my article in the April SOAN.