House backs taxpayer-funded research access

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In what advocates hailed as a major advance for scientific communication, the US House of Representatives yesterday approved a measure directing the National Institutes of Health, to provide free public online access to agency-funded research findings within 12 months of their publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

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