John Baez alerts us to a a bill before Congress that would overturn the National Institute of Health’s open access policy. The NIH, one of the major sources of funding for medical research, requires that any papers that result from its funding must be made publicly available within a year of publication.
You’ve missed an h in your tag for that link. (it says ref=”http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/02/banning_open_access.html”, instead of href, so we can’t follow it.)
Bad link.