Please cut & paste links given separately, as lis-forum is a plain text service. If you are reading this message in Chrome links are automatically visible and clickable- Am I right? The US Department of Energy is making its researchers’ papers free. : Link given below: http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2014/08/u-s-energy-department-make-researc... “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today unveiled its answer to a White House mandate to make the research papers it funds free for anyone to read: a Web portal that will link to full-text papers a year after they’re published. Once researchers are up to speed and submitting their manuscripts, that will mean 20,000 to 30,000 new free papers a year on energy research, physics, and other scientific topics.” And in the same vein, NASA is giving away free ebooks. Link given below: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/nasa-is-giving-away-free-ebooks_b88757 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.