AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGY SOCIETY COMMENTS ON NIH PLAN
The American Physiological Society has publicly released its comment in opposition to the NIH plan. The comment includes a 47 page appendix by a Washington law firm. Excerpt: ‘The APS recommends that instead of this proposal, the NIH should enhance the existing MedLine/PubMed web site so that it is possible to search the full text of articles on journals’ own websites. These searches would yield links to finished [but non-OA] articles on those websites rather than access to manuscripts….NIH’s plan would infringe on the copyright interests of (a) federal grantees who author copyrighted articles based upon NIH-sponsored research, and (b) publishers of professional journals that have accepted those articles for publication and to whom copyright interests have been conveyed.’
Open Access News, Nov. 18, 2004 <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html>
