open access
Open Access
July 21, 2009. KEI letter to Senators John Cornyn and Joseph Lieberman co-signed by IP Justice (IPJ), Essential Action, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) and OXFAM America to express their appreciation for sponsoring the 2009 Federal Research Public Access Act (S.1373). This legislation would extend, improve and make more permanent an earlier open access initiative involving NIH funded research.
Require or Encourage? IGWG text on open access
Submitted by Manon Ress on 14. November 2007 - 16:11Re: The WHO IGWG Text on Access to Publicly Funded Research Provision, from “Requirement” to “Encouragement”?
One of the outcomes of the Nov. 5-10, 2007 second session of the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG2) is a provision on access to government funded research.