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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Great expectations for an Obama administration

Barack Obama's victory has ignited worldwide excitement, and should excite friends of OA as well. 

Neither Obama nor McCain took a position on the NIH policy, or on the attempt by the publishing lobby to overturn it, and both clearly lean more toward OA than against it.  But Obama sent an important signal when he made Harold Varmus one of his science advisors.  While we haven't seen an OA position statement, the Varmus appointment is a very good reason to hope that an Obama administration will protect OA from special interest lobbying and expand it across the federal government

More later, you can be sure.