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Business leaders support OA for publicly-funded research, again Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care, a new report from the Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development, January 2008. (Thanks to Rick Johnson.) From the executive summary:
From the body of the report:
Comment. The CED is a non-profit organization of business leaders dedicated to public policy research. This is not the first time the CED has endorsed OA. Also see its April 2006 report, Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness, which recommended that the NIH strengthen and extend its OA policy. Update. Also see the short article in Wired Science for February 8, 2008. |