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Anybody familiar with NAP's business model?
by evangineer 15y ago
Anybody familiar with NAP's business model?
- bugsy 15y agoIt's not a business, it's the publishing arm of the National Academy of Science, which was chartered to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science" by the US Congress and signed into law by President Lincoln in 1863. The idea was the government needed an academy of experts to advise law makers on matters of science. http://www.nationalacademies.org/about/whoweare.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/about/whoweare.html
- HistoryInAction 15y agoPublished through the Government Printing Office (GPO), too, I believe. So it's basically, publicly funded research is now entirely publicly available.