*** apologies for cross-posting ** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:45:26 +0100 From: Peter Suber <peters AT earlham.edu> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM AT LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Subject: Victory for the NIH open access plan in the House If the Open Access News blog is so full of news these days that you can't read every item, then let me draw special attention to this one from yesterday: Victory for the NIH plan in the House By an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 388-13 the House of Representatives tonight adopted the appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies (H.R. 5006). The bill includes the directive to the NIH to develop an open-access plan by December 1, 2004. On to the Senate! H.R. 5006 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.05006 <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.05006> : (the final colon is part of the URL) Section containing the directive to NIH http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/? <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&db_id=cp108&r_n=hr636.108&sel=T OC_338641> &db_id=cp108&r_n=hr636.108&sel=TOC_338641& (the final ampersand is part of the URL) Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html> Peter Suber