U.S. Congress - H.R.3699 Research Works Act
H.R.3699 - Research Works Act
To ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector. view all titles (2)
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- Short: Research Works Act as introduced.
- Official: To ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector. as introduced.
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12/16/2011--Introduced.Research Works Act - Prohibits a federal agency from adopting, maintaining, continuing, or otherwise engaging in any policy, program, or other activity that: (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prioOfficial Summary
12/16/2011--Introduced.Research Works Act - Prohibits a federal agency from adopting, maintaining, continuing, or otherwise engaging in any policy, program, or other activity that:(1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher; or
(2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the author's employer, assent to such network dissemination. Defines "private-sector research work" as an article intended to be published in a scholarly or scientific publication, or any version of such an article, that is not a work of the U.S. government, describing or interpreting research funded in whole or in part by a federal agency and to which a commercial or nonprofit publisher has made or has entered into an arrangement to make a value-added contribution, including peer review or editing, but does not include progress reports or raw data outputs routinely required to be created for and submitted directly to a funding agency in the course of research.
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Organizations Supporting H.R.3699
- Association of American Publishers
- Ecological Society of America
- Copyright Alliance
- Software & Information Industry Association
Organizations Opposing H.R.3699
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
- American Association of Law Libraries
- The Alliance for Taxpayer Access
- International Society for Computational Biology
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Alliance for Taxpayer Access
- ...and 11 more. See all.
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Anti-Open Access Bill Dies
Representatives Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who introduced the legislation last December, said on Monday (Feb 27) that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would drop the RWA, officially known as HR 3699.
Elsevier-Backed Publishing Bill Bites The Dust, At Least For This Session
According to the Congressional Research Service, the Research Works Act (HR 3699, emphasis added) would have prohibited a federal agency from adopting, maintaining, continuing, or otherwise engaging in any policy, program, or other activity that ...
Elsevier-Backed Publishing Bill Bites The Dust, At Least For This Session
According to the Congressional Research Service, the Research Works Act (HR 3699, emphasis added) would have prohibited a federal agency from adopting, maintaining, continuing, or otherwise engaging in any policy, program, or other activity that ...
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H.R.3699 Research Works Act
asudevil12
February 18, 2012
I am writing as your constituent in the 6th Congressional district of Arizona. I oppose H.R.3699 - Research Works Act, and am tracking it using OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government transparency and accountability.
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sklemp
February 06, 2012
I am writing as your constituent in the 14th Congressional district of California. I oppose H.R.3699 - Research Works Act, and am tracking it using OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government transparency and accountability.
I receive government funds through the National Science Foundation to carry out my research, and to train the next generation of researchers. I believe that by accepting public funding, I also accept a duty to work in the public interest, and to ma... -
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dgingras
January 31, 2012
I oppose H.R.3699 - Research Works Act, and am tracking it using OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government transparency and accountability.
17 U.S.C. §105 says "Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government". That wording is crystal-clear: documentation and research funded by taxpayers is not copyrightable, and is 100% open and available to the public that funded it. It should not be locked-up behind a pay-wall for...
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