-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is the closest we've ever come to public access to research from any U.S. funding agency. The NIH, IIRC, is the largest funder of medical research in the world.
The full House is expected to vote on the bill _very soon_. U.S. citizens: Now is the time to call your legislator and tell them to support this. > Alliance for Taxpayer Access > www.taxpayeraccess.org > > For immediate release > July 13, 2007 > > Contact: Jennifer McLennan > jennifer [at] arl [dot] org > (202) 296-2296 ext. 121 > > CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT BUILDS FOR ACCESS TO PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCH > > Mandatory NIH Policy Headed to Full House and Senate Votes > > > Washington, D.C. - July 13, 2007 - The U.S. House of Representatives > Appropriations Committee has joined its Senate counterpart in > directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to ensure that the > agency's funded research is made freely available on the Internet. > > Both the House and Senate appropriators have now backed provisions in > their respective 2008 Labor, Health and Education Appropriations > Bills that would expand access to NIH research. Final votes by the > full House and Senate are expected later this summer. > > > > The Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), a public interest coalition > that has long called for public access to taxpayer funded research, > applauded Congress's progress on this issue. "We're gratified to have > strong bipartisan support for public access in both the House and the > Senate," said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the > Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an ATA > member. "Given the breadth of support and the similarity of > instructions to NIH from Committee's in each chamber of Congress, we > are hopeful that this policy will soon be law." > > > > The House and Senate spending bills require that NIH-funded > researchers deposit an electronic copy of their peer-reviewed > manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central > online archive upon acceptance for publication in a journal. Articles > would be made publicly available no later than 12 months after > publication. > > > > Under the current voluntary NIH Public Access Policy implemented in > May 2005, individual investigators have deposited less than five > percent of eligible manuscripts. "NIH's well-intentioned voluntary > policy just isn't getting the job done," said Sharon Terry, President > of the Genetic Alliance, an ATA member. "There's too much at stake > to delay further. Patients, medical researchers, clinicians, small > businesses -- they all need timely access to research findings. It's > time they have it." > > > > ### > > > The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is a coalition of patient, academic, > research, and publishing organizations that supports open public > access to the results of federally funded research. The Alliance was > formed in 2004 to urge that peer-reviewed articles stemming from > taxpayer-funded research become fully accessible and available online > at no extra cost to the American public. Details on the ATA may be > found at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org. For further information on > the legislation: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/approp/app08.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGl80itLXQdLhFpekRAr6iAJ0a3SELRnMsGoShvs/7zpU5p1/28wCfepte BUVsw+foN62aAIj24/4D1lc= =zW07 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
