In a victory for open access advocates, two U.S. lawmakers yesterday dropped a bill that would have banned the National Institutes of Health from requiring that its researchers submit their peer-reviewed manuscripts to a public archive. The news came shortly after scientific publishing giant Elsevier withdrew its support for the bill, following a threatened boycott of Elsevier journals by thousands of researchers. The Research Works Act, introduced by representatives Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn...