Though the public funds much U.S. research–through federal grants and public universities–access to this research is, for the most part, controlled by for-profit journals that charge exhorbitant fees. Now, the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. is considering whether it should require all its grantees to provide copies of their to-be-published manusripts so that, six months after publication, they will be made available free to all via publicly accessible archives.
The NIH has solicited feedback on this proposed policy by Nov. 16. I consider this an important initiative and encourage people to reply.
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