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(27,509 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 11:50 PM Jan 2012

Scientists, the White House seeks your opinion on Open Access

http://bjoern.brembs.net/comment-n818.html

Scientists, the White House seeks your opinion on Open Access

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the publishing industry is working to stop Open Access and this is not the first time. A huge counter-movement stopped this initiative dead from the start in 2007 and we need to do this again right now.

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No matter where you are based, answer the RFIs of the OSTP to let the White House know how important Open Access is to the entire world. They are looking for answers from
“non-Federal stakeholders, including the public, universities, nonprofit and for-profit publishers, libraries, federally funded and non-federally funded research scientists, and other organizations and institutions with a stake in long-term preservation and access to the results of federally funded research,”

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