Proposed Bill Prevents Public Access
to Research Papers
The Research Works Act, a bill introduced by Representatives Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carol Maloney (D-NY), looks to reverse the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) public access policy. This policy, introduced four years ago, requires researchers with NIH funding to submit published manuscripts to Pubmed Central, a publicly accessible database. The new bill would no longer require researchers to make such a submission.





