Democrat Maloney and Republican Issa Ally to Hurt Science and Help Companies by Adrienne Burke
From Forbes - The world’s largest scientific journal today is the online, open-access, peer-review publication PLoS One, from a nonprofit organization called the Public Library of Science. It was created by a group of distinguished scientists, led by Nobel laureate and current National Cancer Institute Director Harold Varmus, who say results of research funded by taxpayer dollars should not be hidden behind traditional scientific publishers’ paywalls. As Varmus told me in 2010, “We work on the assumption that the reason we publish is to keep science moving forward. If everybody can see the work that we do, and new work is built on what’s come before, science moves faster.”
Since 2008, the National Institutes of Health has implemented a policy that supports that goal, albeit at a slower pace, by instructing all NIH-funded investigators to submit their research, upon acceptance for publication by any scientific journal, to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Centraldatabase. Law requires that it be made available for free online within 12 months of publication.
