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diff --git a/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Mon/sciencejournals.txt b/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Mon/sciencejournals.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9840fff..0000000 --- a/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Mon/sciencejournals.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -Our friends over at the Wired Science blog noticed that last friday the House of Representatives approved a bill mandating that all agency-funded research be made freely available within a year of publication. - -While that doesn't necessarily mean it'll all be available for download, it might mean, as Brandon Keim [points out in the post][1] many of those currently expensive, firewalled journals will become public. - -Even better, it's conceivable all the new information could added to Google Scholar which would make that specialized search engine even better. - -Which means maybe I can stop annoying my neighbor for her university network password, which is good because I'm moving. - -The senate is reportedly considering a similar bill which will be up for a vote later this summer. - -[photo [credit][3]] - -[2]: http://scholar.google.com/schhp?tab=ws -[1]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/07/one-small-vote-.html "One Small Vote for House, One Giant Leap for Open Science" - -[3]: http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/permalink/hot_library_smut/
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