CIHR Introduces New Open Access Policy: « The Canadian Institute for Health Research has announced, formally, its Open Access mandate for all funded research. Peter Suber has coverage. Stevan Harnad notes that it makes CIHR the 31st organization worldwide to do so. It’s worth noting that this amounts to ‘five percent of the world’s health research scholarship’ – an awful lot, considering the size of our country, and pretty convincing evidence that you do get original research even if you have a public health care system. But it should be noted, as Heather Ross points out, there’s a pretty big loophole for publisher embargos. « (Via Stephen’s Web ~ OLDaily.)

Il n’est, en effet, que naturel que les résultats de recherches qui ont été subventionnées par le public soient rendues publiques. En fait, considérant la part importante de toute science qui repose sur un patrimoine commun, ce sont TOUS les résultats de recherches qui devraient être rendus publiques.