[Open-access] An anti-RWA bill

Fri Feb 10 08:35:26 UTC 2012

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 20:50, Nick Barnes <nb at climatecode.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 20:36, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:
>
>> Assuming that the current round of revolt against the RWA is
>> successful, the same will be the case with respect to academic
>> publishing.  I find myself thinking that rather that fighting a
>> rearguard action, we should be taking the battle to the publishers.  I
>> would like to see a movement to get rid of the NIH's twelve-month
>> grace period before the articles it funds are posted at PubMed
>> Central.
>
> Or to broaden it: pass an act requiring all federally-funded research
> papers to be open access.

Like this: http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/the-federal-research-public-access-act/
-- 
Nick Barnes, Climate Code Foundation, http://climatecode.org/