FIRST Act introduced with language severely undermining US public access policies | SPARC

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-03-11

Summary:

"The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition (SPARC), an international alliance of nearly 800 academic and research libraries, today announced its opposition to Section 303 of H.R. 4186, the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) Act. This provision would impose significant barriers to the public’s ability to access the results of taxpayer-funded research.  Section 303 of the bill would undercut the ability of federal agencies to effectively implement the widely supported White House Directive on Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research and undermine the successful public access program pioneered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – recently expanded through the FY14 Omnibus Appropriations Act to include the Departments Labor, Education and Health and Human Services.  Adoption of Section 303 would be a step backward from existing federal policy in the directive, and put the U.S. at a severe disadvantage among our global competitors.   'This provision is not in the best interests of the taxpayers who fund scientific research, the scientists who use it to accelerate scientific progress, the teachers and students who rely on it for a high-quality education, and the thousands of U.S. businesses who depend on public access to stay competitive in the global marketplace,' said Heather Joseph, SPARC Executive Director. 'We will continue to work with the many bipartisan members of the Congress who support open access to publicly funded research to improve the bill' ..."

Link:

http://www.sparc.arl.org/news/advocacy/first/pr

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Date tagged:

03/11/2014, 16:57

Date published:

03/11/2014, 12:57