whit wrote:
] Decius wrote:
] ] ] Researchers who receive grant money from the National
] ] ] Institutes of Health will be "asked" to submit their
] ] ] results to a public Web site within a year after they are
] ] ] published in a scientific journal, under a new and
] ] ] controversial NIH policy announced yesterday.
] ]
] ] Haven't ya'll heard of a library?
]
] You missed the point. NIH wants researchers (those they fund)
] to make their raw data readily available to anyone wishing to
] replicate the results reported in the published article. As
] it stands now, anyone can email the researchers and request
] their data, who will happily provide whatever they request.
] Seems a bit odd that NIH would request that scientists would
] post their data online. Email at least encourages
] collaboration and communication. Regardless - NIH seems to be
] sticking their nose in places they shouldn't. I'm afraid they
] will soon demand the kinds of research they believe should be
] done. Canada has a brilliant funding model in place (NSERC).
] NIH should take note.

I kinda thought that the issue was this: if my tax dollars payed for that research, then shouldn't the results be published in a publically accessible form that I don't have to pay for? Libraries are great, but libraries have to pay for the journals, and online access to them is limited.

RE: NIH Grant Recipients Are 'Asked' to Post Data (washingtonpost.com)