House committee hears arguments for and against open access to research papers
AUG 06, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024565
Chronicle of Higher Education : Late last month, the House of Representatives’ subcommittee on information policy, census, and National Archives called witnesses to testify on whether the scientific papers that result from government-funded research should be freely available—even when they appear in scientific journals that must charge subscriptions to recoup their expenses. As the Chronicle‘s Jennifer Howard reports, the issue hinges on weighing the public’s interest in gaining access to research that it has ultimately funded and the publishers’ interest in being compensated for curating the medium through which those results are presented and preserved.
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