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Clamoring for Access

Mar 02, 2007

This post on Slashdot describes the rising popularity for the concept of "free access to government-funded research," including word of a petition for such a repository. That petition "garnered more than 20,000 signatures, including several Nobel prize winners and 750 education, research, and cultural organizations from around the world," according to the post.

 

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