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摘要

A bill that requires free public access to academic articles resulting from federally funded research was introduced into the US Congress on 14 February. If passed, the bill would order research agencies to give free access to papers no later than six months after their publication. Currently the US National Institutes of Health requires its research to be publicly accessible after 12 months. This is the fourth such bill on open access to be introduced into Congress. None has yet made it to the voting stage. See go.nature. com/wm4d77 for more.