[Open-access] An anti-RWA bill

[Björn Brembs]

Not sure if this means that funds can be taken out of
grants, or if NIH will add publication costs to grants. To
me this reads like you can take publication costs out of
grants. If a publication at CNS were indeed between 10-20k
as they claim, such a publication would critically impede
many research projects, as there are a lot of experiments to
be made with this kind of money. I've had grants that
weren't much larger than that!

My argument that people have to pay out of their own pockets
is only invalid, if the funder pays all author-fees in
addition to the grants, not as part of them - otherwise
everyone would just tack 20k to every grant, just in case,
and spend them on experiments if there were no such paper.

Good find, though!

Bjoern

Nick Barnes wrote:

> http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm#810

> "Will NIH pay for publication costs?

> Yes. The NIH will reimburse publication costs, including author fees,
> for grants and contracts on three conditions: (1) such costs incurred
> are actual, allowable, and reasonable to advance the objectives of the
> award; (2) costs are charged consistently regardless of the source of
> support; (3) all other applicable rules on allowability of costs are
> met."




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