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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Biotech - NIH Revises Plan for Quick, Free Access to Study Results
"NIH Revises Plan for Quick, Free Access to Study Results" is the headline to this story today in the Washington Post. Some quotes:
An ambitious proposal to make the results of federally funded medical research available to the public quickly and for free has been scaled back by the National Institutes of Health under pressure from scientific publishers, who argued that the plan would eat into their profits and harm the scientific enterprise they support.The initial plan, encouraged by Congress and hailed by patient advocacy groups, called for the results of NIH-funded research to be posted on a publicly accessible Web site within six months after they are published in a scientific journal. Most research results now are available only by subscription to the journal -- at a cost that often reaches into the thousands of dollars -- or on a pay-per-article basis that can cost $100 or more for two or three articles.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 18, 2005 02:44 PM
Posted to Biotech