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United States Legislature: Save PubMed: Vote Against the Research Works Act (H.R.3699)!
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    1. United States Legislature
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    Ellen Smyth
    Clarksville, TN
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Why should Americans have to pay for research that we never get to see? This bill before the U.S. Congress would ban public access to research funded with taxpayer money. Nearly every article in the PubMed database would disappear, making the cure for cancer and other diseases less accessible, but that is only a tiny part of currently accessible research that would disappear from public access if this bill passes. The only ones who seem to benefit from the bill are publishers, who just happen to be sponsoring the bill and who feel entitled to profit even more than they are already from publicly funded research.

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31184

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/why-is-open-internet-champion-darrell-issa-supporting-an-attack-on-open-science/250929/

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Save PubMed: Vote Against the Research Works Act (H.R.3699)!

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Save PubMed: Vote Against the Research Works Act (H.R.3699)!

Why should Americans have to pay for research that we never get to see? This bill before U.S. Congress would ban public access to research funded with taxpayer money. The PubMed database could disappear, making the cure for cancer and other diseases less accessible, but that is only a small part of currently accessible research that could disappear from public access if this bill passes. The only ones who seem to benefit from the bill are publishers, who just happen to be sponsoring the bill and who feel entitled to profit even more than they are already from publicly funded research.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/why-is-open-internet-champion-darrell-issa-supporting-an-attack-on-open-science/250929/

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31184

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