Oppose Section 303 of the FIRST Act | SPARC

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-03-16

Summary:

"On March 10, 2014, Representatives Larry Bucshon (R-IN) and Lamar Smith (R-TX) introduced H.R. 4186, the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology Act of 2014 (FIRST Act). This legislation would impose significant barriers to the public’s ability to access to taxpayer funded research by restricting federal science agencies’ ability to provide timely, equitable, online access to articles and data reporting on the results of research that they support. The FIRST Act is not in the best interests of the taxpayers who fund the research, the scientists who make use of it by accelerating scientific progress, the teachers and students who rely on its availability for a high-quality education, and the thousands of U.S. businesses, both small and large, which depend on public access to stay competitive in the global marketplace.  One provision of H.R. 4186 – Section 303 – would undercut federal agencies’ ability to effectively implement the widely-supported White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Directive on Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research, undermine the public access program pioneered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and put the U.S. at a severe disadvantage among our global competitors ..."

Link:

http://sparc.arl.org/advocacy/national/first

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

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oa.new oa.advocacy oa.sparc oa.crowd oa.recommendations oa.first oa.usa oa.legislation oa.funders oa.mandates oa.green oa.embargoes oa.negative oa.repositories oa.policies oa.openwashing

Date tagged:

03/16/2014, 09:47

Date published:

03/16/2014, 05:47