NY State Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act - SPARC

"The legislation would require any New York State executive branch agency, commission or authority that funds direct research to establish a public access policy that would provide access to articles reporting on research funded by the state.

These policies would require funded researchers to submit an electronic copy of articles resulting from that grant and accepted for publication to the agency for deposit into a publicly accessible online database. These articles would be made publicly accessible as soon as practicable, but no later than six months after publication. An online bibliography of all the research papers made publically accessible under this policy would be produced, and each entry would be linked to the corresponding free online text.

These articles would be housed in a digital repository that provides for their free accessibility and long-term preservation. The repository must be maintained by the agency, by another repository approved by the agency."