Scholarly Publishing & Acad. Resources Coalition: Nine Organizations Support FRPAA: Letter to Sen. Cornyn

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

On 2/14 SPARC provided a link to a letter of thanks written to Senator Cornyn for his support of the FRPAA. The letter was written on behalf of nine organizations including: the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, Creative Commons, Greater Western Library Alliance, Public Knowledge, Public Library of Science, and SPARC. An excerpt from the text of the letter reads as follows: “On behalf of these nine national and regional library, publishing, research and advocacy organizations, we write to thank you for introducing S. 2096, ‘The Federal Research Public Access Act.’ This bill will provide an important mechanism to ensure that manuscripts of peer reviewed scientific articles reporting on research funded by the U.S. Government can be freely accessed and used by all American taxpayers – including researchers, teachers, students and businesses.Timely, barrier-free access to the results of federally funded research is an essential component of our collective investment in science... The establishment of interoperable, open digital repositories containing publicly funded research will create an unprecedented, rich new resource for researchers – and all interested members of the public – to tap into... S. 2096 reflects the growing worldwide trend of funding agencies and higher education institutions actively working to maximize access to and sharing of research results... The bill advances the progress made by the public access policy of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the first U.S. agency to require public access to taxpayer-funded research. Since its implementation, the NIH policy has resulted in an average of 90,000 new biomedical manuscripts being made publicly available each year... Finally, the proposed bill is also consistent with the demonstrated interests of the Administration. As part of the Open Government Directive, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently issued a call for public comment on the potential implementation of public access policies (like the one proposed in S. 2096) across all U.S. science agencies...”

Link:

http://www.arl.org/sparc/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.licensing oa.comment oa.libass oa.mandates oa.usa oa.frpaa oa.legislation oa.nih oa.green oa.copyright oa.societies oa.libraries oa.plos oa.cc oa.sparc oa.ala oa.acrl oa.repositories oa.libre oa.policies

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 15:06

Date published:

02/14/2012, 22:11