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I know we are petition-crazy right now, please give this one a whirl.
http://wh.gov/6TH
http://wh.gov/6TH
We petition the Obama administration to:
Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles
arising from taxpayer-funded research.
We believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation,
research, and education. Requiring the published results of
taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet in human and
machine readable form would provide access to patients and caregivers,
students and their teachers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and other
taxpayers who paid for the research. Expanding access would speed the
research process and increase the return on our investment in
scientific research.
The highly successful Public Access Policy of the National Institutes
of Health proves that this can be done without disrupting the research
process, and we urge President Obama to act now to implement open
access policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific
research.