[TKDietz]

If you look at the actual proposed law you will see that it doesn't require these publishers to give the government anything. It requires taxpayer funded researchers to provide a report of their findings if they are able to get their work published in a peer reviewed journal. The final article published in the journal does not have to be published on the Internet, and the research report does not have to be submitted for publication free on the Internet until six months after the version to be published in the journal is published in the journal. This is an extra requirement for government funded researchers, not for scientific journals.

[Viking Ski Bum]

TK -

Tru dat RE: the language of the bill. However, if the journal is going through the expsense and effort to peer review, edit, and publish the research - and then the same research is given to the government by the scientist 6 months after publication - the journal has surrendered the intellectual property they spent money on.

Now if the federal grant for the research included a proviso that the end product was strictly for public consumption via the federal government and prohibited publication in a peer review journal, the entire problem would be solved. This still strikes me as the best route. Do you see any problems with that?