| Topic: |
Sociology > Depression |
| User: |
"" |
| Date: |
11 Sep 2004 12:24:54 PM |
| Object: |
Public right to know |
Salut
If you believe in the public right to know please give some thought to
this request from medical writer and journalist Barbara Seaman. Please,
with Barbara's permission and at her
request, pass this along. Zee
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html
Comments may sent directly to
"NIH is proposing to make all NIH-funded research papers publicly
available six months after their publication in journals. It wants all
authors receiving NIH funding to send electronic copies of "final
manuscripts" to NIH, which would make them freely available via PubMed
six months after
their official publication.
The agency is now seeking public comment on this proposal. As you
might expect, for-profit publishers (as well as some putatively
nonprofit scientific societies) are fighting it tooth and nail. It may
help stiffen NIH's resolve if they hear from people who believe
publicly funded research should be available to the public.
How dare they use our tax money to fund medical research and then keep
the results scarce."
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