Scientific publishing policy should be based on facts, not politics | TheHill

"Congress...should be sure to avoid doing harm to America’s historic partnership between scholarly researchers and publishers of scientific and technical journals to serve the public at large....Two recently introduced bills, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) and the Public Access to Public Science Act (PAPS) would do just that, undermining this country’s global leadership in scientific publishing....The Association of American Publishers (AAP) represents more than 100 professional and scholarly publishers...."