Does this mean what I think it means?
Apr. 9th, 2008 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillWired has a blog post about something that seems very exciting to me.
Right now I can only read papers whose paper journals or e-journals I can find at the Carson Newman library (not a big selection). If I'm really desperate I can drive into Knoxville and use their paper journals, but their e-journals are closed to me, since I don't have a UTK username/password anymore to access them. This will be a great thing for people like me who can't afford e-subscriptions to all the journals out there, and sometimes really want to read a particular paper.
Hot damn!
Passed by President Bush in December as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007, the law requires the submission of all scientific articles produced with National Institutes of Health funding to PubMed, the NIH's public digital library. Within one year of publication, articles must be made freely available in their entirety.If this means what I think it means--any research funded by the NIH (most of the biological research in this country, though the NSF does also account for a modest chunk) must have resulting publications (the papers in science journals that describe the research, its results, and the implications) made available for free by one year after publication. This time next year, presumably, we'll be seeing the first trickles of what will be a flood of free papers.
Right now I can only read papers whose paper journals or e-journals I can find at the Carson Newman library (not a big selection). If I'm really desperate I can drive into Knoxville and use their paper journals, but their e-journals are closed to me, since I don't have a UTK username/password anymore to access them. This will be a great thing for people like me who can't afford e-subscriptions to all the journals out there, and sometimes really want to read a particular paper.
Hot damn!
