Great news for geeks and taxpayers in general:
NIH: $29b in Health Science Set to Go Online for Free – ReadWriteWeb
George Bush signed a $555 billion omnibus spending bill yesterday that included a huge victory for advocates of open science on the internet. All research funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency with a $29 billion research budget, will now be required to be published online, free to the public, within 12 months after publication in any scientific journal.
