January 18, 2005

Scaled back the promises

NIH Revises Plan for Quick, Free Access to Study Results (washingtonpost.com). This tells you that the lobbyists for the publishers are doing quite a job.

An ambitious proposal to make the results of federally funded medical research available to the public quickly and for free has been scaled back by the National Institutes of Health under pressure from scientific publishers, who argued that the plan would eat into their profits and harm the scientific enterprise they support.

Posted by johnvu at January 18, 2005 04:56 PM
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