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Open Access Advocates Protest The FIRST Act

Sal Robinson | Melville House | November 18, 2013

When, in February 2013, the White House issued a directive stating that all larger federal agencies (agencies that spent over $100 million R&D annually) should make the results of any federally funded research available to the public within a year of publication, Open Access advocates cheered. [...] However, a new bill [...] now threatens to reverse the progress made earlier in the year. Read More »