The National Institutes of Health proposed back in September 2004 mandated Open Access for all NIH-funded research. The Science Commons project was created to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing.
It may be that this effort isn’t really even needed though. 93% of journal publishers already allow self-archiving, so perhaps it’s more a matter of instituting the mechanics of self-archiving more than anything else. Here’s an excellent article in the October 2004 issue of Information Today discussing the open access movement.
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
Join the Conversation! Post a Comment:
Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 29 Dec 2004
