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Science 4 July 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5629, p. 29
DOI: 10.1126/science.301.5629.29a
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ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING:
Who Owns, Who Pays? U.K., U.S. Offer Answers for Journals

David Malakoff and Daniel Bachtold

Government officials on both sides of the Atlantic are stoking the debate over free access to electronic scientific journals. In the United Kingdom, a government body announced last month that it will pay the publication costs of any British university researcher who submits a paper to open-access journals published by BioMed Central, a London-based company. And last week a member of the U.S. Congress introduced a bill aimed at preventing private publishers from monopolizing information by denying copyright protection to work produced with "substantial" government funding.

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