Call to Action: Oppose H.R. 3699, a new bill to block public access to publicly funded research (Right to Research Coalition)
Right to Research:
This bill would erase years of progress from the NIH policy – which makes 90,000 papers per year freely available through PubMed Central – and prohibit students and taxpayers from having guaranteed access to research they paid for in the first place.
Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication
Great piece on open access.
AAP Applauds "Research Works Act"
Moving to legislate against open access publishing of US federally funded research:
The legislation is aimed at preventing regulatory interference with private-sector research publishers in the production, peer review and publication of scientific, medical, technical, humanities, legal and scholarly journal articles. This sector represents tens of thousands of articles which report on, analyze and interpret original research; more than 30,000 U.S. workers; and millions of dollars invested by publishers in staff, editorial, technological, capital and operational funding of independent peer review by specialized experts. North American-based science journal publishers alone account for 45% of all peer-reviewed papers published annually for researchers worldwide.
Bad news.
