Re: OT;Congressional Panel Favors Access to Publicly Funded Research

[Guest guest]

good to hear but 12 months could be to long for some situations.

it burns me when I find something and can only read the abstract, if

there is one. how many times do we have to pay. there should not even

be a waiting of 12 months. how many may die in a year while important

medical knowkedge is charged for.

--- In , " tigerpaw2c " <tigerpaw2c@...>

wrote:

>

> Congressional Panel Favors Access

> to Publicly Funded Research*

>

> http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/release07-0628.html

>

> Washington, D.C. – June 28, 2007 – Public access to NIH-funded

> research took a major step forward this week with Senate

> Appropriations Committee agreement to direct the National

Institutes

> of Health (NIH) to require that its funded research be made

publicly

> available on the Internet.

>

> This milestone was immediately praised by the Alliance for Taxpayer

> Access (ATA), a coalition of patient groups, researchers,

consumers,

> and libraries that has long called for such a step.

>

> " The momentum is real and Congress understands the public's

> interest, " said ph, Executive Director of SPARC (the

> Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, an ATA

> founding member). " We congratulate Senators Tom Harkin and Arlen

> Specter for their bipartisan leadership on this issue. "

>

> " It is significant that Senate appropriators are determined to

> leverage the taxpayer investment in research by ensuring it can be

> broadly applied, " added ph. " Two years after the well-

> intentioned voluntary NIH policy was introduced, too many

> researchers, students, small businesses, and people facing diseases

> still lack access to the publicly funded research they want and

> need. This is a big step in the right direction. "

>

> The Senate's 2008 appropriations bill specifically requires that

NIH-

> funded researchers deposit in the National Library of Medicine's

> online archive an electronic copy of their peer-reviewed

manuscripts

> upon acceptance for publication in a journal. Articles would become

> publicly available no later than 12 months after publication.

>

> " Action by our Senators in supporting this change is especially

> welcomed by the patient community, " said Colleen Zak, Executive

> Director of the Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease and

> Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis (ARPKD/CHF) Alliance. " Delivering on

the

> NIH public access policy will create anticipated opportunities for

> accelerating research and finding cures. "

>

> Under the current NIH Public Access Policy, implemented in May

2005,

> investigators have deposited less than five percent of eligible

> manuscripts and, although a few publishers have also deposited

> articles stemming from NIH-funded research, the vast majority is

not

> yet publicly available.

>

> Congress has expressed concern about the voluntary policy's failure

> to meet its goals. However, this is the first time the Senate

> committee has proposed legislative action to correct the situation.

> The Senate measure is similar to one recently put forth by the

House

> of Representatives Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee.

>

> The FY08 Senate Appropriations Bill is expected to go before the

> full Senate for a vote later this summer. The House Labor/HHS

> Appropriations measure will be considered by the full House

> Appropriations Committee in July.

>

> Contact:

> McLennan

> jennifer [at] arl [dot] org

>

>

> # # #

>

> The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is a coalition of patient,

> academic, research, and publishing organizations that support open

> public access to the results of federally funded research. The

> Alliance was formed in 2004 to urge that peer-reviewed articles

> stemming from taxpayer-funded research become fully accessible and

> available online at no extra cost to the American public. Details

on

> the ATA may be found at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org.

>