This Week in Nature

Nov 08, 2007

In news in Nature, Congress will vote this week on the NIH budget, a bill that would increase NIH's 2008 budget 3.1% to 29.8 billion and that incorporates a measure to force NIH researchers to publish their work only in papers that make it freely available to the public within one year of publication.

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