January 28, 2005
The NIH Reportedly Is Weakening Its Plan for Free Access to Journal Articles
Just weeks after its director defended a controversial draft policy for providing free access to scientific literature, the National Institutes of Health appears to be softening its stance. A newspaper report last week said that the NIH's final policy, which is not yet public, would ask scientists to post their papers online a year after they were published by a journal, instead of just six months.
The Washington Post reported that the final policy would follow the draft policy in
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