Notes on the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act - Harvard Open Access Project
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-02-20
Summary:
Use the link to access the full text wiki from the Harvard Open Access Project. " [1] The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act is the successor to the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA). FRPAA had been introduced in three earlier sessions of Congress (May 2006, April 2009, and February 2012) but had not come up for a vote. In the 113th Congress, Congressional supporters of OA decided to introduced a modified bill. The result is FASTR, a new and strengthened version of FRPAA. Both bills would require open access (OA) to peer-reviewed manuscripts of articles reporting the results of federally-funded research. [2] See the text of the bill, from the office of Rep. Mike Doyle, one of the co-sponsors in the House. [3] Because FRPAA is well-known, we organize this section by comparing FASTR with FRPAA. (Section numbers in parentheses refer to FASTR, not FRPAA.)"