The Chronicle of Higher Education

NIH's Final Plan for Free Access to Journal Articles Draws Fire From 2 Directions

By LILA GUTERMAN

Washington

The National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday its policy for providing free access to the large swaths of the scientific literature that draw on research it has financed. As had been widely expected, the policy asks scientists to post their papers online within a year of publication...

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