Tom Costello's NBC News story on the NIH plan (aired November 28, 2004) now has a stable home online where you can read the transcript and replay the video. Excerpt from the transcript: 'While the government spends $28 billion dollars of taxpayer money each year for research into everything from cancer to diabetes to Alzheimer's disease, the findings are usually published in for-profit journals and subscription fees have been skyrocketing. Critics say taxpayers are being fleeced....That's why NIH Director Elias Zerhouni is moving to put all NIH-fundedresearch online --for free. "I have a duty to the public," says Zerhouni. "And if you look at the number of papers published at NIH --50 to 60,000 papers a year-- the cost of that is supported by the public."' (Thanks to Linda Watson.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/15/2004 04:28:00 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.
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.
