Congress considers paywalling science you already paid for
January 9, 2012
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Should you be able to read research you’ve helped to fund?
A few years ago, Congress approved an access policy that makes most taxpayer-funded research freely available online within 12 months of publication. It has proven a huge boon to researchers and the public.
Now, however, as UC Berkeley evolutionary biologist Michael Eisen relates, a proposed bill threatens to reverse this policy, Wired Science Neuron Culture reports.
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