University-press association speaks out on public access to research

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

“The Association of American University Presses does not support the proposed Research Works Act, the group said in a statement released Tuesday. But it also does not support an opposing bill, the Federal Research Public Access Act, which would require public access to the results of federally financed research no later than six months after publication. The other bill would prevent federal agencies from imposing such mandates. Both bills would ‘short circuit the process of creating appropriate and sustainable public access policy currently being undertaken by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, as mandated by current law, the America COMPETES Act,’ the group said. ‘AAUP supports the COMPETES process...’ The press association ‘supports the goal of providing free public access to the results of publicly funded research,’ the statement said. ‘However, we think the blanket prohibition sought by RWA goes too far. At the same time we also think the one-size-fits-all solution proposed in FRPPA is unworkable. It mistakenly assumes that no more than six months will be required for publishers to recover the investment they have made in preparing research works for publication, in all fields and across all disciplines.’”

Link:

https://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/university-press-association-speaks-out-on-public-access-to-research/35475

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.mandates oa.usa oa.frpaa oa.legislation oa.negative oa.rwa oa.nih oa.copyright oa.aaup oa.policies

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 15:01

Date published:

02/17/2012, 17:53