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Volume 351:2879-2880 December 30, 2004 Number 27
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To the Editor: The Journal's support (Sept. 23 issue)1 for the proposal of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to make the results of NIH-sponsored research more readily available to the public2 is commendable, as is its policy of making articles freely available six months after the publication date. However, the editorial by Drs. Drazen and Curfman makes misleading claims regarding copyright. The editorialists say that the Journal "will continue to seek redress if others use what we publish for commercial purposes." Authors would benefit most from the widest possible distribution of their work, commercial or noncommercial. They also . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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