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OA mandate for NIH
On Friday, August 10th, Open Access News carried another in their series of posts on a proposed Open Access mandate for the National Institutes of Health. OAN has been tracking a measure that’s made its way through the House supporting this concept, and this post is an editorial supporting the measure.
The numbers in the Honolulu Advertiser editorial are compelling. $28 billion a year in tax money supports research at NIH, which generates some 60,000 published studies, the vast majority of which end up in subscription-based journals for which universities pay top dollar to access.
