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"Government does not fund peer-reviewed journal articles—publishers do". That is the (IMHO rather outrageous) statement by Allan Adler, Association of American Publishers VP for government and legal affairs to the House Judiciary Committee last week regarding the http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.801:" . This nice (where is that tongue-in-cheek smiley?) piece of bipartisan legislation would remove restrictions on federally-funded research that requires researchers to make their publications publicly available (e.g. PubMed, arXiv) even after an embargo period.
Some reading:
http://paulcourant.net/2008/09/17/fair-copyright-in-research-works/
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6595774.html
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/open_access_the_time_to_act_is.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
Googling the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act results in a lot more hits, none of them favorable to the publishing industry that I can see.
I made my opinion known by calling Adler's statement outrageous. Others have called it galling. Any other opinions?
Some reading:
http://paulcourant.net/2008/09/17/fair-copyright-in-research-works/
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6595774.html
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/open_access_the_time_to_act_is.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
Googling the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act results in a lot more hits, none of them favorable to the publishing industry that I can see.
I made my opinion known by calling Adler's statement outrageous. Others have called it galling. Any other opinions?
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