Re: Publicly funded research

["Heather Morrison" <hmorrison@ola.bc.ca>]

Although the U.S. government no doubt has the most clout in this area,
there's nothing to stop those of us in other countries from encouraging
our own governments to take similar measures...

a personal view by,

Heather Grace Morrison
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>> While I don't believe the US government can dictate WHERE something is
>> published, I do believe it has every right and even an obligation (to the
>> public health if nothing else) to dictate the conditions of how the
>> published research that comes out of grants it funds.  Specifically, it
>> could require that all of it be made available to the public free, as
>> Medline is now.  I believe it is such a big player (the elephant in the
>> living room?) that it could make such a requirement stick.  Sure, JAMA can
>> get it "first" (or Nature or Science), but then it also becomes available
>> elsewhere.  If publishers don't like it, then so much the better for open
>> access journals.
>>
>> Harvey Brenneise
>> Michigan Public Health Institute
>> hbrenne@mphi.org