White House responds to freeing scientific research

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Submission + - White House responds to freeing scientific research (whitehouse.gov)

Submitted by brgomeistr on Friday February 22, 2013 @09:47PM

brgomeistr writes: Today the white house responded to the whitehouse.gov petition requesting free access to journal articles published using public funding. The white house director of the office of science and technology issued a memorandum requiring federal agencies that fund scientific research to require that results be publicly available 12 months after initial publication in a scientific journal.

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