By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Twenty-five Nobel Prize-winning scientists today are calling for the government to make all taxpayer-funded research papers freely available.
“Science is the measure of the human race’s progress,” scientists say in a letter to Congress and the National Institutes of Health.
Signers include DNA co-discoverer James Watson and former National Institutes of Health chief Harold Varmus, a longtime supporter of open access.
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