Rep. Doyle Introduces Bill To Provide Public Access To Publicly Funded Research | Techdirt

“We were quite disappointed last month to see that Rep. Darrell Issa -- who has done lots of excellent work to encourage more open access to government information -- was sponsoring a bill that would close off open access to government funded research... It's a huge scam and it's why a ton of academics are boycotting publishing giant Elsevier, (infamous for its fake journal division)... The issue in these bills is that there has been a movement to require any research that is federally funded (taxpayer funded) to be placed in an open access repository one year after it was published. The National Institute of Health (NIH) who funds billions in research every year, has had this policy going for a few years... Except... the journals hate this because they want their lifetime-plus monopoly on this information... Thankfully, however, Rep. Mike Doyle -- who has a long history of being really good on copyright issues -- has introduced a counter bill to Issa's bill (pdf) called the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012...”