As 21 Nobel Prize award-winning scientists and scholars we are writing to express our strong support for immediate open access to the results of research funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars. We understand there is an Executive Order under consideration by your Administration that would remove the 12-month embargo currently in place for access to published, taxpayer-funded research and strongly urge you to sign this order.
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The old model of subscription publication is not a good fit for the modern electronic era.
The U.S academic enterprise can and must adjust to a more open form of scientific communication removing the middleman to deliver the fruits of government-funded research to all as quickly as possible.
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SPARC