NIH "Open Access" Plan Should Be Cooperative Venture With Publishers – NAS
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The National Institutes of Health's proposal to make journal articles freely available six months after publication should maintain the credibility and authority of the peer review system, the Council of the National Academy of Sciences says.
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