Urgent: Take one minute to save Open Access
The U.S. Senate is currently considering a bill to require all National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research to be made publicly available via PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. The bill has already been approved by the House and by the Senate Appropriations Committee. However on Friday, Senator Inhofe (R-OK) slipped in two amendments aimed at either removing the policy or adding language such that the policy is made ineffective. U.S. citizens can take action by contacting their representatives online by using the American Library Association’s online action center and providing a zip code.