PUBLIC ACCESS TO SCIENCE: WITH LIBERTY AND RESEARCH FOR ALL.
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2003 @ 20:08:04 UTC
Topic: General
From the latest What's New (R.L. Park):
"On Wednesday, Rep. Martin O. Sabo (D-MN) released a draft of the Public Access to Science Act, which will eliminate copyright protection for publications stemming from federally funded research...
The laudable goal of this measure is to make research easily accessible via the internet. Sabo's move appears to further the goals of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), chaired by Harold Varmus, a group that wants to see scientific publishing move away from the subscription-based economics, which they claim limit the availability of the research. PLoS will release its first "open-access" journal, PLoS Biology, in October, and plans to release PLoS Medicine next year."
Also, from the same publication another comment that shows Bob Park's realism (he's not a visionary, but when he's righ ...he is right)
"HYDROGEN SCAM? NUCLEAR POWER, WE'RE TOLD, IS A HYDROGEN WELL. Many readers of What's New took umbrage with last week's diatribe called "The Hydrogen Scam." They point out that hydrogen can be produced in ways that do not produce greenhouse gases. Sure, but will it be? 95% of the hydrogen currently produced in the United States comes from steam methane reforming (WN 30 Jan 03), which belches CO2 and does nothing to promote energy independence. Is a hydrogen economy an idea whose time has come? Maybe, but we need a more open congressional discussion of the administration plan, and less docile coverage by the media."
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