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PLAINTIFF CITY OF COPPELL,a right to tell the funder how recipients should spend their money. From the moment a researcher gets a grant accepted up to the moment they send off a manuscript for review, publishers have nothing to do with a funder's money.

Additionally, the NIH mandate does nothing to "disregard" private-sector's added value. It was a major concession to private industry to allow open access after one year, recognizing that it does add value by administrating, editing, printing and distributing the work, in addition to managing the peer review process. During the first year of a publication's life is when access requests would be strongest anyways. In fact, during the few years that the NIH policy has been in place, profits of at least one major academic publisher haven't changed