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"We wanted to strike the balance between the extraordinary public benefit of
increasing public access to the results of federally-funded scientific research
and the need to ensure that the valuable contributions that the scientific
publishing industry provides are not lost," he said.
Federal agencies are permitted a 12-month embargo time before offering access
and can petition for a longer lag.
"We are working on the cutting edge of the science. I want to read a new paper
NOW, not in 1 year," Vittorio Saggiomo, a chemist at the University of Groningen
in the Netherlands, wrote in an online chat about the announcement.
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