WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, PAUL STAINTHORP
Academic publishers are publically disagreeing with their commercial counterparts over their association's support of a bill being considered in the US Congress that would limit open access to research findings funded with tax payer dollars.
It was not so surprising when last week the Association of American Publishers (AAP) came out in favor of the Research Works Act, which would roll back the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy mandating that all published research funded by the federal science agency be submitted to the publically accessible digital archive PubMed Central. But since announcing its stance, the trade group, which includes in its ranks scientific journal publishers Elsevier, Sage, and other corporate members, has been seeing its non-profit members—university presses and the like—voice their disagreement.
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