*** apologies for cross-posting **

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:45:26 +0100
From: Peter Suber <peters AT earlham.edu>
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM AT LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Victory for the NIH open access plan in the House

If the Open Access News blog is so full of news these days that you
can't read every item, then let me draw special attention to this one
from yesterday:

Victory for the NIH plan in the House

By an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 388-13 the House of
Representatives tonight adopted the appropriations bill for the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
related agencies (H.R. 5006). The bill includes the directive to the NIH
to develop an open-access plan by December 1, 2004.  On to the Senate!

H.R. 5006
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.05006
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.05006> :
(the final colon is part of the URL)

Section containing the directive to NIH
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&db_id=cp108&r_n=hr636.108&sel=T
OC_338641> &db_id=cp108&r_n=hr636.108&sel=TOC_338641&
(the final ampersand is part of the URL)

Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html>

     Peter Suber