Ana Radelat has a six-sentence note on the CURES Act in the December 11 Hattiesburg American and a two-sentence note in the Clarion Ledger, two Mississippi papers. The CURES Act is co-sponsored by Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi. What's notable is that this is all the news coverage I've seen since the bill was announced on December 7.
It appears that the most extensive coverage of the bill to date is here in Open Access News. I'm no longer surprised when blogs outperform the MSM. But I'd like this bill to pass and for that it needs wider press. Isn't it newsworthy that CURES would spend $5 billion, create a new federal agency, devote itself to curing major diseases, and mandate open access to federally-funded medical research? (Note to U.S. Senators: The next time you introduce a significant bill, mention Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, or torture somewhere in the title.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/13/2005 02:24:00 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.
