{"id":2364,"date":"2012-01-13T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:58","slug":"new-bill-would-put-taxpayer-funded-science-behind-pay-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/13\/new-bill-would-put-taxpayer-funded-science-behind-pay-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bill Would Put Taxpayer-Funded Science Behind Pay Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/new-bill-would-put-taxpayer-funded-science-behind-pay-walls\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/gt_biomedical_research_300x200_120112.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right now, if you want to read the published results of the biomedical research that your own tax dollars paid for, all you have to do is visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/\">digital archive<\/a> of the National Institutes of Health. There you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find thousands of articles on the latest discoveries in medicine and disease, all free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>A new bill in Congress wants to make you pay for that, thank you very much. The <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c112:H.R.3699:\">Research Works Act<\/a> would prohibit the NIH from requiring scientists to submit their articles to the online database. Taxpayers would have to shell out <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/digitalbio\/2012\/01\/how_much_does_it_cost_to_get_a.php\">$15 to $35<\/a> to get behind a publisher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s paid site to read the full research results.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/new-bill-would-put-taxpayer-funded-science-behind-pay-walls\">via ProPublica<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, if you want to read the published results of the biomedical research that your own tax dollars paid for, all you have to do is visit the digital archive of the National Institutes of Health. There you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find thousands of articles on the latest discoveries in medicine and disease, all free of charge. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/13\/new-bill-would-put-taxpayer-funded-science-behind-pay-walls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Bill Would Put Taxpayer-Funded Science Behind Pay Walls<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[533,80,196,532],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-access","tag-research","tag-science","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10082,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/10082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}