NASA Follows NIH To Make All Research It Funds Open Access | Techdirt
abernard102@gmail.com 2015-02-14
Summary:
"We've written in the past about how the National Institute of Health (NIH) requires any research it funds (and it funds a lot) to be published under open access rules via its own PubMed Centralplatform after a certain period of time. There have been some efforts in Congress to require other government funded research to go down the same path, and some other agencies have worked on some similar ideas on their own. Now, NASA has announced that it will be requiring all research published via the $3 billion NASA spends each year to to also be published on the PubMed system(and also within in 12 months, as the NIH requires) ..."