id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt istl-2065 Public Science, Public Access .html text/html 761 34 56 Viewpoints Public Science, Public Access David Flaxbart Viewpoints Editor flaxbart@uts.cc.utexas.edu Advocates for open access to the scientific literature were heartened recently by the surprising introduction of a Senate bill that would require most recipients of federal research funds to make their findings freely available within six months of publication. The claim of threats to the system of peer review also seems particularly weak now, given the recent well-publicized hits that system has taken in the wake of high-profile scandals such as the Woo Suk Hwang case in stem cell research. cache/istl-2065.html txt/istl-2065.txt