RE: Publicly funded research

[Harvey Brenneise <HBrenne@MPHI.org>]

Hey, you Canadians deserve a break once in awhile, aye?  <g> I personally
believe PubMed is one of the greatest gifts (along, perhaps, with the CDC)
that US taxpayers have unwittingly provided the world.  Seriously, I think
the issue is one that should be pursued, but taking it on individually
seems a bit Quixotic, don't you think, Vivian?  This is something I'd like
to see MLA or SLA take on.

Harvey Brenneise


-----Original Message-----
From: Vivian Stieda [mailto:vstieda@ucalgary.ca]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 7:07 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Publicly funded research

NIDDR and OSERS already does this, do they not? If I am not mistaken, all
research that comes out of an OSERS & NIDRR funded grant must be made
publicly available. Thus US citizens, and by virtue of the web, the rest
of us, have free access to the full text of papers that have come out of
NIDDR and OSERS funded research. Examples of this can be found at Abledata
and the NARIC information centre.

(The cheeky side of me also can't help think that since US taxpayers seem
to have already agreed to pay for this kind of model, it seems reasonable
that a similar kind of infrastructure could be set up for other government
funded research in other disciplines, say medicine. And as a Canadian and
thus non-tax paying contributor to this initiative, I'd be only too
delighted to help you move this initiative forward)

Vivian Stieda
Health Knowledge Network