Victory for Open Access

Last night, the US Senate approved the Labor-HHS appropriations bill that includes a provision requiring all NIH funded studies to be available free of charge (i.e. Open Access). Furthermore, the bill passed 75-19 preventing any possibility of a veto. And the Inhofe amendments? From Open Access News:

Inhofe withdrew his anti-OA amendments earlier in the day and as a result the bill passed with the OA mandate for the NIH intact. However, Inhofe did file a "colloquy" (statement for the record to be included as part of the legislative history) objecting to the NIH provision and asking the House-Senate conference committee to reconsider it.

the government should stay the fuck out of micromanagement decisions about science like this

By douchebag (not verified) on 24 Oct 2007 #permalink

So the government shouldn't ensure that the public benefits from science funded by tax payer money?

I guess in your world the government should just throw money willy-nilly at public projects, and not care how it is spent.