Congress pushes plan to make papers free

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The free-to-access archive is being backed by a coalition of US politicians and advocacy groups, to make publicly funded research freely available. However, critics claim that such a policy could affect the integrity of the scientific literature. Two versions of the same research paper are to be published that is, a peer-reviewed manuscript version held in PubMed Central and a journal version complete with copyedits and other mostly cosmetic modifications.

Periodical Publishers, Periodicals, Scientific & Technical Journals, Research & Development-Government, Government Research-Applications, Access control, Records and correspondence, Science journals, Government research

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Building a better foundation

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Europeans expect their governments to fund research and education but European Foundations like Gulbenkian and Wellcome, two of the few European foundations that have a significant impact on their host countries' research and development, are hoping to play a major role on their host countries' research and development. The possible role of such foundations in future European research and education is discussed.

Europe, Government expenditures, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Commercial physical research, Research & Development-Industry, Science, Research & Development, Research and development, Industrial research, Research grants, Research funding, Government finance

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NIH offers free access to wealth of disease data

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U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded the 'database of Genotype and Phenotype' (dbGAP) that would allow people to search across multiple epidemiological studies, providing new links to particular diseases. The agency is trying to work out a policy that would regulate all the unprecedented amount of clinical and biological studies along with genome-wide association studies.

General services, Services information, Services, Diseases, Company systems management, Information management, United States. National Institutes of Health

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