White House Mulls Plan to Broaden Access to Published Papers.

The article discusses advocacy efforts to enact legislation requiring the mandatory release of research papers. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) began requiring that grantees of research funding send copies of their peer-reviewed, accepted papers to the agency. Topics include an overview of an online forum opened by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and comments by scientists regarding the impact of mandatory release of papers on science publishing.