Open access for Federally funded research

As reported here, a recent congressional appropriations bill “requires that scientific research funded by the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education be placed in a free online repository within 12 months of their publication in a peer-reviewed journal.” If this is signed into law it will be interesting to see if it is actually enforced, since publicly funded data is also supposed to be made available to the public.

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