A petition has been posted on the "We The People" page of the White
House website, urging President Obama to implement open access
policies akin to the NIH mandate for other federal funding agencies:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ

Please sign if you agree with this recommendation.

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."   --Martin Luther King, Jr.


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