Publisher opposition to FRPAA 81 publishers have sent an open letter to Cong...

"81 publishers have sent an open letter to Congress opposing the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)....

The publisher letter also repeats the old nationalist argument: "[FRPAA] would also compel American taxpayers to subsidize the acquisition of important research information by foreign governments and corporations that compete in global markets with the public and private scientific enterprises conducted in the United States."

Carolyn Maloney used a similar nationalist argument in defense of RWA <http://goo.gl/sh7fX>: "Two-thirds of the access to PubMed central is from non-US users. In effect, current law is giving our overseas scientific competitors in China and elsewhere important information for free. We are already losing scientists due to a reduction in funding for federal research. This policy now sends our value-added research papers overseas at no cost." 

The AAP first used this argument in 2006 in attacking the first iteration of FRPAA <http://goo.gl/8fHcs>: "Remember -- you're talking about free online access to the world...You are talking about making our competitive research available to foreign governments and corporations." ..."