Summary
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access can declare a victory since, in March, Pres Obama signed the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act into law, which includes a provision making the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy permanent. Heather Joseph, spokesperson for the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, noted, thanks to the work of a wide coalition of patients, libraries, researchers, publishers, students, and taxpayers, the results of NIH-funded research can be accessed -- and used -- in ways never before possible. The successful implementation of this policy will unlock the potential of this research to benefit the public as a whole.
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The Tide has Changed, Get Over It
We seem to have developed a mandate mantra: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) unanimously passed an open access (OA) mandate for the entire institution, and Harvard's schools seem to be embracing OA one by one (the third, the Kennedy School of Government, just passed its mandate with 98% of the sch...
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