These articles are interpreting the bill slightly wrong, although the end result is mostly the same. The bill bans government-mandated open access, but scientists are still allowed to voluntarily submit their papers to open access journals such as PLoS.
That's interesting, thanks for pointing it out.
I'm just as annoyed as before though. I don't follow why government funded programs cost money if they don't have to. If the government pays then the citizens should have access to the information as soon as possible.
It would certainly be evil, but not be unconstitutional, for the government to require government-funded researchers to publish their government-owned ideas wherever the government prefers.
If I develop cold fusion 'using university resources', then it's theirs, according to my contract.
