Official announcement: http://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy
This is a huge piece of news, and another major victory for the Trump Admin. The CORRUPT system by which the PUBLIC paid for research, only to have the results of the research Shanghied for profit by connected (corrupting) middlemen is over.
Effectively, this corrupt system has functioned, in addition, as a great system of nudging and propagandizing. Researchers need to get their papers published. And other people need to READ the original research. Else, "inconvenient" research can be pretty easily "pie-holed" and surpressed.
This corrupt system has been in place for, I think, approximately forever. I am continually running into a case where I can't read original research because I don't have a SUPER expensive access (and I mean super, for any private citizen who is just trying to follow up on something else).
This is a big deal and, I'm sure, many, many BILLIONS of insider knowledge has been effectively privatized. I doubted it would have made the top of the list to even be recognized, given all the other "hits". So I thought I would highlight it to post.
I'm personally hoping that as Trump runs into years 2,3,4 the "hits" can just keep coming.
Of course, MAGA needs to SWEEP the House decisively in 2026, for that to happen.
This war has a long way to go.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/0535250/starting-july-1-academic-publishers-cant-paywall-nih-funded-research
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Posted by msmash on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:00AM from the moving-forward dept.
An anonymous reader writes:
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has announced that the NIH Public Access Policy, originally slated to go into effect on December 31, 2025, will now be effective as of July 1.
From Bhattacharya's announcement:
NIH is the crown jewel of the American biomedical research system. However, a recent Pew Research Center study shows that only about 25% of Americans have a "great deal of confidence" that scientists are working for the public good. Earlier implementation of the Public Access Policy will help increase public confidence in the research we fund while also ensuring that the investments made by taxpayers produce replicable, reproducible, and generalizable results that benefit all Americans.
Providing speedy public access to NIH-funded results is just one of the ways we are working to earn back the trust of the American people. Trust in science is an essential element in Making America Healthy Again. As such, NIH and its research partners will continue to promote maximum transparency in all that we do.
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