NIH Proposes Free Access to Research Data

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This sounds very promising! Guess we need to do the

'public comment' part. <g>

 

marian, Creena, Gareth & SamThePoodle

 

 

 

 

> NIH Proposes Free Access For Public to Research Data

> By Rick Weiss

> Washington Post Staff Writer

> Monday, September 6, 2004; Page A21

>

> The National Institutes of Health has proposed a major policy change

> that

> would require all scientists who receive funding from the agency to

> make

> the results of their research available to the public for free.

>

> The proposal, posted on the agency's Web site late Friday and subject

> to

> a 60-day public comment period, would mark a significant departure from

> current practice, in which the scientific journals that publish those

> results retain control over that information. Subscriptions to those

> journals can run into the thousands of dollars. Nonrs wishing

> to get individual articles must typically pay about $30 each -- fees

> that

> can quickly add up for someone trying to learn about a newly diagnosed

> disease in the family.

>

> Story at:

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64389-2004Sep5.html