Research Groups Oppose Capping NIH Funding of Publisher Fees

Research Groups Oppose Capping NIH Funding of Publisher Fees

The National Institutes of Health received roughly 900 comments on its various proposals to limit how much of its grant dollars are eaten up by journals’ publication charges. Major science groups called the approaches wrong. The National Institutes of Health requested public comments earlier this year on its proposals to reduce how much of its grant money researchers can use to pay scientific journals to publish their work. The agency released t…