Re: Critique of APS Critique of NIH Proposal

[heatherm@eln.bc.ca]

hi Jim,

If I understand correctly, what the NIH proposal covers is the results of
the research that it funds.  Unless there's an NIH proposal for publishing
subsidies that I'm not aware of?

Many thanks to you & to Highwire Press for all the material you Iin
cooperation with publishers, of course) have made openly accessible.

cheers,

Heather Morrison

On Wed,  1 Dec 2004 20:30:22 EST liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu wrote:

>> One example:  the reference to the Paperwork Reduction Act.  A quick
>> glance at the Paperwork Reduction Act at
>> http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/public_laws/
>> paperwork_reduction_act/3501.html makes it immediately obvious that the
>> NIH proposal is in complete synch with the goals of this act.  For
>> example, the 2nd purposes of the Act is to:  "ensure the greatest
>> possible public benefit from and maximize the utility of information 
>> created, collected, maintained, used, shared and disseminated by or for 
>> the Federal Government;".  It doesn't take much brainpower to realize 
>> that making NIH research results openly accessible precisely fits the 
>> goals of this act.

> But publication by non-government entities (the publisher) is not by or
> for the Federal Government, is it?  I think your example is out of
> context, since the only way it would apply would be if the NIH was
> directly paying the publisher for the publication to occur, right?
> 
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