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This article reports on efforts to make publications resulting from U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded (NIH) research available for free on the PubMed Central archive. Change was introduced to a House appropriations bill tha would requires NIH grantees to submit to PubMed within 12 months of scientific publication. The move is opposed by scientific societies and publishers.

The article reports on the efforts of U.S. government to make scientific research available for all. It reports that the accessibility offered by the Internet has transformed science publishing over the past decade. The government of the U.S. is making efforts to make all federally funded research available for free. The new system will make huge numbers of scientific articles publicly available for all. It reports that such archives will basically contain the final versions of the manuscripts written by the authors. There was an increase in public access in late 2007 when the U.S. Congress passed a bill and made it compulsory for scientists funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to deposit their papers within 12 months of publication.

Mentions that the collection of papers and radio equipment belonging to Guglielmo Marconi is being given to the Science Museum in London. The protests over the original plan to auction the material.