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Good riddance...

...to the Research Works Act, a bill which would have prohibited the federal government from requiring open access to research funded by the federal government. You read that correctly: you, dear taxpayer, get to pay for the research; then, when you want to read the results, you'll have to pay again!

A Slate commentary on this, here. As we've documented over the past month or so on this blog, the winds of open access seem to be picking up....
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  1. Julie Reagan, PhD, JD, MPHFebruary 28, 2012 at 8:44 PM

    Hey Guys, what are your thoughts on the launch of the Open-Access Journal on Antibiotic Resistance and Infection Control?

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  2. Eli PerencevichFebruary 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM

    I"m excited for it. Hopefully it will push AJIC and ICHE to consider open-access models. Of course, I'm biased since I'm a section editor for ARIC. Full disclosure of COI.

    Of course, costs to publish are currently high, but hopefully those can come down over time.

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