From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 21:31:20 -0400 Via Gary Price's InfoDocket Scientists Call on Funders to Make Research Freely Available Immediately, “Plan U” Proposal Published Today "In a new article in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, Richard Sever and John Inglis from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Mike Eisen from UC Berkeley propose a new solution to these problems, which they call Plan U (for “universal”). "They call on the organizations that fund research – government agencies such as NIH and charities like the Howard Hughes Medical Institute – to require the scientists they support to post drafts of their papers on free websites called “preprint servers” before submitting them to academic journals." https://www.infodocket.com/2019/06/04/scientists-call-on-funders-to-make-research-freely-available-immediately-plan-u-proposal-published-today/