> Publications by federal employees are already required by law to be in the public domain. It's time we look at doing the same for the results of federally fun

> Publications by federal employees are already required by law to be in the public domain. It's time we look at doing the same for the results of federally funded research. Yes, this needs to happen. NIH already requires that publications arising from NIH-funded research be made publicly available 12 months after publication (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ http://publicaccess.nih.gov/). Other funding organizations really need to do this. IMHO, they should also require that publications be made publicly available immediately upon acceptance and provide incentives for "gold" open access (where the article is immediately made available on the publisher's website).