http://inkdroid.org/journal/2007/03/14/open-access-petition-in-the-us/ $pithy_personal_mission_statement Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:46:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://inkdroid.org/journal/2007/03/14/open-access-petition-in-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-16584 Disruptive Library Technology Jester :: Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the U.S. Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:18:08 +0000 http://www.inkdroid.org/journal/2007/03/14/open-access-petition-in-the-us/#comment-16584 [...] As others have noted, there is now an online petition in support of public access to publicly funded research in the United States. The text of the petition is short: We, the undersigned, believe that broad dissemination of research results is fundamental to the advancement of knowledge. For America’s taxpayers to obtain an optimal return on their investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible. Yet too often, research results are not available to researchers, scientists, or the members of the public. Today, the Internet and digital technologies give us a powerful means of addressing this problem by removing access barriers and enabling new, expanded, and accelerated uses of research findings. [...] [...] As others have noted, there is now an online petition in support of public access to publicly funded research in the United States. The text of the petition is short: We, the undersigned, believe that broad dissemination of research results is fundamental to the advancement of knowledge. For America’s taxpayers to obtain an optimal return on their investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible. Yet too often, research results are not available to researchers, scientists, or the members of the public. Today, the Internet and digital technologies give us a powerful means of addressing this problem by removing access barriers and enabling new, expanded, and accelerated uses of research findings. [...]

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