Representative John Conyers has re-introduced his bill to repeal the Open Access policy at the National Institute of Health and other Federally-funded agencies.
The results would ban normal public-availability of government-funded research, and place the findings square into the hands of publishers, who can charge phenomenal fees (books, media) for the research we, the taxpayers funded.
Sounds like lobbying from publi$hers to me.
Read More:Peter Suber, Open Access News
Posted under Corruption, Taxes
This post was written by PoliticsRX on February 16, 2009
