NIH to Deliver Free Access to Research

Increasing access to materials not only means digitizing, but also providing access to those things that are born digital. The National Institutes of Health has released a plan to make published health studies (which given how we work would be in electronic form to begin with) available to the public.

From the NPR web site:

All Things Considered, February 3, 2005 · The National Institutes of Health
unveils a plan to offer a Web site giving consumers free access to published
government health studies. The plan comes after pressure from patient advocacy
groups and Congress.

A link to the audio of this report is available here.