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Proposal for Public Archive Draws Support, Criticism
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The National Institutes of Health has announced that it intends to create a publicly accessible archive of all publications of research funded by the agency. Under the proposal, final versions of manuscripts would be made available on PubMed Central, an online archive run by the National Library of Medicine, 6 months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
The proposal, announced in September, has gained support from some patient
groups and other organizations that believe that the plan is a step in the
right direction toward