Please sign our petition for open access to ALL govt information | Free Government Information (FGI)

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-04-01

Summary:

"  A convergence of several things -- the White House's new policy on Open Access to federally funded scientific information, the NAPA Report on the GPO, the CASSANDRA Letter to the Public Printer, and Sunshine Week among them -- has led us to create a petition on the White House's We the People petition site. If you believe in free permanent public access to authentic government information, we hope you'll sign the petition and forward on to all your friends and social networks to help us reach our goal of 100,000 signatures by April 11, 2013! Thanks in advance!! WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Require free online permanent public access to ALL federal government information and publications. 1. Assure that GPO has the funds to continue to maintain and develop the Federal Digital System (FDsys). 2. Raise ALL Congressional, Executive & Judicial branch information, publications & data to the level of federally funded scientific information & publish ALL government information as 'Open Access.' 3. Mandate the free permanent public access to other Federal information currently maintained in fee-based databases - including the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER), the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL), & USA Trade Online. 4. Establish an interagency, govt-wide strategy to manage the entire lifecycle of digital government information w/ FDLP Libraries - publication, access, usability, bulk download, long-term preservation, standards & metadata ... Just as the Obama Administration supports the public’s right to 'free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research,' the Administration must support the creation of “stable and sufficient funding” to ensure free permanent public access to authentic government information arising from the work of taxpayer-funded Executive, Congressional, and Judicial Branch agencies."

Link:

http://freegovinfo.info/node/3891

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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Date tagged:

04/01/2013, 16:41

Date published:

04/01/2013, 12:41