Forum Post: Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.)
Posted 11 years ago on Sept. 30, 2013, 7:31 a.m. EST by GirlFriday
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The year after PLOS ONE went online, open-access advocates scored another victory: Congress passed a bill forcing life-science publishers to send NIH-funded papers to PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. The papers could only be read online and not downloaded, but it was a start.
Still, the industry has engineered at least two attempts to gut the NIH policy, including the Research Works Act, introduced in 2011 by Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.). Elsevier, the bill's main supporter, backed off after mathematicians boycotted the company and Eisen publicized a bunch of interestingly timed donations from company execs to Maloney. "The Elsevier people were referring to the bill as their bill—they're just so dumb!" he says.
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That said, it doesn't jibe here.
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It is depressing. Yes, they are a different breed. I understand that they have a catch 22 and I understand that a type of admonishment is in order. However, this lil' corporation is damn sure not the good guys.
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LOL That is too funny. Let his brother take the fall because he is used to it.
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Me too.
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