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The fight over mandating free access to papers based on research funded by taxpayer dollars is again heating up in Washington, D.C. Yesterday, lawmakers discussed expanding the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) "public access" policy to other science-funding agencies.
Although the hearing didn't focus on a specific bill, it touched on two dueling proposals introduced in Congress in recent years. The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), H.R. 5037, builds on NIH's 2-year-old requirement that grantees submit their peer-reviewed manuscripts to the free PubMed Central database for posting within 12 months after publication in a journal. (The 12-month embargo is to protect journals' subscriptions.) The FRPAA bill would extend the policy to 11 other research agencies and shorten the delay to 6 months. Meanwhile, a separate bill, H.R. 801, would block such policies by changing U.S. copyright law.
I study Italian language & literature and applied linguistics @ Pennsylvania State University.
I study Italian language & literature and applied linguistics @ Pennsylvania State University.
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