SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Peter Suber,
Dec 02, 2004
In this, the 80th issue of the newsletter, two major developments in open access are highlighted. In what author Peter Suber calls "the largest single step toward free online access in the history of the OA movement," the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plan to support open access was endorsed by the U.S. Congress. But on the other side of the pond, in response to what must have been heavy industry lobbying, the British government decided that it is "not aware of any evidence of a significant problem in meeting the public's needs in respect of access to journals through public libraries." Ian Gibson, chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, remarks, "This isn't evidence-based policy, it's policy-based evidence."
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