September 12, 2008
Congressional Hearing Over Public Access Filled With High Drama
A life-and-death battle is going on over public access to federally financed research—life for taxpayers and many scientists, and death for publishers. Or so each side claims. That battle, whose outcome will affect many university researchers, kicked into high gear on Capitol Hill yesterday, as the combatants debated the merits of a bill that would curtail the National Institutes of Health's public-access policy.
The hearing, held by a House of Representatives subcommittee,
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