NIH Revises Plan for Quick, Free Access to Study Results
From the Washington Post:
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.
The initial plan, encouraged by Congress and hailed by patient advocacy groups, called for the results of NIH-funded research to be posted on a publicly accessible Web site within six months after they are published in a scientific journal…In the final version of the plan, however, the recommended six-month deadline for posting results has been stretched to a year.
Other past interesting articles on this:
Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information: Implications for Open Access
The push for public access to journals