July 30, 2004
American and British Lawmakers Endorse Open-Access Publishing
In a double coup for the open-access movement this month, committees of the U.S. Congress and British Parliament recommended that papers resulting from government-financed research be made available free.
The committees recommended that the U.S. and British governments require researchers to deposit in free, online archives any articles that arise from research sponsored, respectively, by the National Institutes of Health and any British agency. The British committee further
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