(From Wired). Apparently Congress has approved a bill mandating that all research funded by public agencies needs to made freely available within a year of publication. If journals have to do so for publicly funded research, does it make sense for them to keep anything behind a wall after a year? Just make everything available already.
An open science titbit
(From Wired). Apparently Congress has approved a bill mandating that all research funded by public agencies needs to made freely available within a year of publication. If journals have to do so for publicly funded research, does it make sense for them to keep anything behind a wall after a year? Just make everything available already.
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