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.

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...

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...

I am writing as your constituent in the 21st Congressional district of Texas. 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 am a private citizen who works in finance, but I love reading journal articles detailing nutrition and exercise studies. I use this knowledge to improve my own health and that of my family and friends. Unfortunately, despite federal and state governme...

I am writing as your constituent in the 0th Congressional district of Vermont. 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.

Sincerely,
Matthew Hunt

I am writing as your constituent in the 4th Congressional district of Indiana. I am writing as your constituent in the 4th Congressional district of Indiana. I am writing as your constituent in the 4th Congressional district of Indiana. I am writing as your constituent in the 4th Congressional district of Indiana. 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.

The research...

I am writing as your constituent in the 10th Congressional district of Georgia. I oppose H.R.3699 - Research Works Act. I see that none of you have jumped on the co-sponsor train so I'll give you points for that. All other points will come when you vote against this bill. Tell me if I am interpreting this bill correctly. I interpret this bill as meaning that I will have to pay for results of research that I funded to start with. This makes zero sense and I'm intrigued to know who stands to b...

I am writing as your constituent in the 6th Congressional district of Maryland. I am writing as your constituent in the 6th Congressional district of Maryland. I oppose H.R.3699 - Research Works Act.

I work as a researcher for the Army Research Lab, building vision systems for small robotic platforms. The Army depends on the availability of scientific research-- we simply don't have enough scientists to keep up with what is happening in the private sector. Although most papers are availab...

I am writing as your constituent in the 24th 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.

It is absurd that academic publishers believe that they can so nakedly extract rent from the public through the government in order to allow them to view the work that their own tax dollars paid for in public universities. Feinstein and Boxer, both...

I am writing as your constituent in the 8th Congressional district of Massachusetts. 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.

Taxpayers should have access to the research that they pay for. For more details of the many reasons not to vote for H.R.3699, please consult Kevin Zelnio's post at the Scientific American blogs (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/evo-eco-lab/20...