Information Paywalls and Information Rights: The Link between News Story and Research Article – Slaw

"This denial of public access is recognized as fundamentally wrong by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in Canada, as well as by other research funding agencies around the world, as reflected in their policies requiring public access to the research they fund. These policies, however, allow publishers an initial twelve-month embargo on public access, intended to ensure that research libraries continue subscribing to the journals in which the research appears. Almost 25 percent of the research in the news stories in our study was published within a day of the story, with 50 percent within two weeks, and 75 percent within three months."