The Chronicle of Higher Education

NIH Proceeds With Plan to Provide Open Access to Scientific Papers

By LILA GUTERMAN

Bethesda, Md.

Recent recommendations by a Congressional committee have shifted the debate over "open access" -- whether scientific journals ought to be freely available to the public -- from trading barbs and sound bites in the news media to direct lobbying of the National Institutes of Health, including letter-writing...

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