"The push to open up scientific knowledge to all looks set to go into overdrive. Over the past decade, the accessibility offered by the Internet has transformed science publishing. Several efforts have already tried to harness the web's power to make research papers available for free. Now two parallel efforts from the US government could see almost all federally funded research made available in free, publicly accessible repositories. Many journals, including Nature, help authors fulfill institutional mandates by depositing articles in PubMed Central on the authors' behalf."
Source: First paragraph on an article in the journal Nature April 8:
"US Seeks to make science free for all" by Declan Butler
The journal issue is available in the library.
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