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Publishers Flip Out, Call Bill To Provide Open Access To Federally Funded Works A ‘Boondoggle’

Last week, a new version of Doyle’s bill was introduced and it’s been improved. First off, it’s got some nice bipartisan backing in both parts of Congress. On the Senate side, it was co-sponsored by Senators Cornyn and Wyden, while on the House side we’ve got Doyle along with Reps. Yoder and Lofgren. Also, it reduces the time to open publishing from one year down to six months (like a NY bill that came out last year). It doesn’t spread the policy to all federal agencies, but the vast majority of federally funded resarch would qualify (all agencies that spend over $100 million on research are covered).
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Representatives Urge White House to Support Public Access to Federally Funded Research

Representatives Urge White House to Support Public Access to Federally Funded Research

U.S. Congressman Mike Doyle (Democrat) writes an open letter to U.S. government urging the White House to support open access to federally funded research. He names successful strategies outside the U.S. and relates to the petition “Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research”.

While we believe a continued commitment to research and development is an important component of investment in U.S. economic competitiveness, the added value of making research publicly available is that it can exponentially increase collaboration and intelligent knowledge sourcing among researchers.  Public access policies can help to boost the value of academic works by exposing them to larger audiences and increasing the potential for citations.