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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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