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NIH Director Says That NIH-financed Research Will Be Free
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
Thu Jul 29 20:02:39 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:21:49 -0500
From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cbailey@UH.EDU>
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Here's an interesting follow-up development to the
House Appropriations Committee report
discussed in the last Current Cites:
"National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Elias Zerhouni
indicated at a gathering of 43 scientific journal publishers
and editors Wednesday (July 28) that eventually all NIH-financed
research will be freely available to the public."
More in "NIH Research to be Open Access: Publishers and Editors
Meet Zerhouni Plans for Publicly Available Papers with Exasperation."
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040729/04/
SPARC has created a related Web page on "Taxpayer Access:
Open Access to Taxpayer-funded Research" that provides
additional information and suggestions for action. It
indicates that a number of library organizations,
such as ALA, ACRL, ARL, MLA, and SLA are supporting
the Committee's recommendations.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=o3
Best Regards,
Charles
Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library
Planning and Development, University of Houston,
Library Administration, 114 University Libraries,
Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu.
Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm
