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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • September 17, 2008
    An article by Andrea Gawrylewski:

    ``A new bill seeks to undo the NIH mandate requiring federally-funded research papers to be made publicly available within 12 months of acceptance for publication.

    ``In a hearing yesterday (September 11) the US House Committee on the Judiciary considered whether the mandate violates publishers' copyright. The committee's chairman, John Conyers (D-Mich), sponsored the bill, HR6845, titled the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, which would prohibit federal agencies from requiring a transfer of copyright license for the paper resulting from federal funds. Under the current mandate, researchers give the NIH a non-exclusive license so that manuscripts can be deposited in PubMed Central. Without such a copyright license, the agency can't deposit final manuscripts into the PubMed database and all copyright is maintained, in most cases, by the publisher.''

    Full story (requires free registration):
    http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55009/

    Library of Congress entry:
    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.6845:

    Hat tip: Prash Suravajhala

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