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)

All Bill Titles

  • 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.

This Bill currently has no wiki content. If you would like to create a wiki entry for this bill, please Login, and then select the wiki tab to create it.

View All (31)

02/29/12
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.

Source: Scientist
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
02/29/12
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 ...

Source: The Moderate Voice
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
02/28/12
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 ...

Source: The Moderate Voice
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
02/27/12
Support Pulled from Bill Killing Open-access Publishing

The Research Works Act (HR 3699) would have nullified the open-access policy in place at the National Institutes of Health, and would have kept federal agencies from permitting or requiring that research funded in part with federal money be made public.

Source: GenomeWeb
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
02/27/12
Legislation to Bar Public-Access Requirement on Federal Research Is Dead

The bill, HR 3699, would have prevented agencies of the federal government from requiring public access to federally subsidized research. In a statement released on Monday morning, the publisher reiterated its opposition to government mandates even as it .

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
02/26/12
Legislation to Bar Public-Access Requirement on Federal Research Is Dead

The bill, HR 3699, would have prevented agencies of the federal government from requiring public access to federally subsidized research. In a statement released on Monday morning, the publisher reiterated its opposition to government mandates even as it .

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
02/26/12
Legislation to Bar Public-Access Requirement on Federal Research Is Dead

The bill, HR 3699, would have prevented agencies of the federal government from requiring public access to federally subsidized research. In a statement released on Monday morning, the publisher reiterated its opposition to government mandates even as it .

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
02/09/12
Cross-Government Open Access Bills Introduced in House and Senate

That measure, the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699), would counter the open-access movement specifically by keeping federal agencies from permitting or requiring "network dissemination" of any "private-sector research work" without consent of the publisher.

Source: GenomeWeb
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/25/12
Some Associations, Scholars Protest Bill That Would Curb Public Access to Research

Opposition to the Research Works Act continues to spread. In a statement posted today on its Web site, the Modern Language Association said it opposes the bill, HR 3699, which would prevent federal agencies from requiring researchers to make the published

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/22/12
Who Gets to See Published Research?

Darrell E. Issa, a Republican of California, and Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democrat of New York, introduced the Research Works Act (HR 3699) last month. The bill would forbid federal agencies to do anything that would result in the sharing of privately ...

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/21/12
Who Gets to See Published Research?

Darrell E. Issa, a Republican of California, and Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democrat of New York, introduced the Research Works Act (HR 3699) last month. The bill would forbid federal agencies to do anything that would result in the sharing of privately ...

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/21/12
Who Gets to See Published Research?

Darrell E. Issa, a Republican of California, and Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democrat of New York, introduced the Research Works Act (HR 3699) last month. The bill would forbid federal agencies to do anything that would result in the sharing of privately ...

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/17/12
University Presses Disagree With Publishers Group on Bill to Curb Public Access

U.S. Reps. Darrell E. Issa, Republican of California, and Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York, introduced the bill, known as the Research Works Act (HR 3699), last month. The bill would forbid federal agencies to do anything that would result in the .

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/17/12
Democrat Maloney and Republican Issa Ally to Hurt Science and Help Companies

The purported purpose of HR 3699? ”To ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector.” In a statement, Tom Allen, CEO of the Association of American Publishers, which backs the bill ...

Source: Forbes
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/17/12
University Presses Disagree With Publishers Group on Bill to Curb Public Access

U.S. Reps. Darrell E. Issa, Republican of California, and Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York, introduced the bill, known as the Research Works Act (HR 3699), last month. The bill would forbid federal agencies to do anything that would result in the .

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/16/12
Publishing Industry Tries Again to Make You Pay Twice: $1.6 mil given to House Reps

Issa and Maloney are both members. The new bill, HR 3699, which is supported by publishing interest groups such as the Association of American Publishers, would prohibit any federal agency from enforcing any requirement that publishers make works funded ..

Source: Salem-News.Com
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/16/12
Mistruths, Insults from the Copyright Lobby Over HR 3699

As you know from my last post, I am staunch proponent of open access to scientific information, especially the variety that I paid for by virtue of taxation. The Research Works Act (HR3699) being proposed now will lock away taxpayer funded ...

Source: Scientific American
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/14/12
Open medical knowledge saves lives: Oppose H.R. 3699

Where not otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States and other countries.

Source: Boing Boing (blog)
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/12/12
Keep Public Science Public - Kill H.R. 3699

Support the campaign to kill HR 3699 by sharing it on facebook and twitter. Carolyn Maloney is my congresswomen. I am a biomedical scientist, and she is congresswoman to tens of thousands of biomedical scientists. Her district NY-14 includes ...

Source: DAILY KOS
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/10/12
Publishers Back Bill to Ban Public Access Mandates to Federally Funded Research

The Research Works Act (HR 3699), co-sponsored by Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), was introduced on December 16, 2011, and is strongly backed by the Association of American publishers, which, in a statement, characterized the ...

Source: Publishers Weekly
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/10/12
Publishers Back New Bill to Ban Public Access to Research

The Research Works Act (HR 3699), co-sponsored by Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), was introduced on December 16, 2011, and is strongly backed by the Association of American publishers, which, in a statement, characterized the ...

Source: Publishers Weekly
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/09/12
Anti-Open Access Rises Again

The bill, H.R. 3699, would also make it illegal for other federal agencies to adopt similar open-access policies. The legislation, referred to as the Research Works Act, is being applauded by the Association of American Publishers, a book ...

Source: Scientist
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/07/12
The Research Works Act would deny taxpayers access to federally funded research.

And demand that she withdraw H.R. 3699. Let’s take this at the most basic level. If public money is used to fund scientific research, does the public have a legitimate expectation that the knowledge produced by that research will be shared ...

Source: Scientific American
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/07/12
Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) sell out science

...for an industry over the public. Here's her email page if you want to send her a nasty-gram. Tell her to change position on H.R.3699 the "Research Works Act". (Email is required for authentication purposes only. On some blogs, comments are moderated for

Source: Denialism
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/07/12
Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) sell out science [denialism blog]

...for an industry over the public. Here's her email page if you want to send her a nasty-gram. Tell her to change position on H.R.3699 the "Research Works Act". (Email is required for authentication purposes only. On some blogs, comments are moderated for

Source: ScienceBlogs
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/07/12
Proposed Bill Threatens Open Access to Taxpayer-Funded Research

In recent years, Congress decided to make it a law that most taxpayer funded research had to be posted online with free access within 12 months of publishing. Access to a scholarly article can cost around $30. Now, a new bill introduced to the House of R

Source: The Blaze
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/07/12
Stop U.S. legislation that would block public access to publicly funded research

In December 2011 the U.S. House of Representatives introduced The Research Works Act (H.R.3699)SPARC says, “Essentially, the bill seeks to prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grants to require that articles reporting on publicly funded rese

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/06/12
Elsevier-funded NY Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Wants to Deny Americans Access to Taxpayer Funded Research

Ask her why she wants cancer patients to pay Elsevier $25 to access articles they’ve already paid for. And demand that she withdraw H.R. 3699.

Source: DISCOVER
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/06/12
Congress wants to limit open access publishing for the US government's $28B/year subsidized research

A new bill in Congress, H.R. 3699 ("To ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector"), creates a regulation that make it hard-to-impossible to publish open access scholarly journals.

Source: Boing Boing (blog)
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/04/12
Why does the University of California Press support reactionary legislation opposing public access to scientific research?

A bill (H.R. 3699) was just introduced into the US House of Representatives that would deny the American public access to the results of scientific and medical research carried out at taxpayer expense. The bill’s target is the National ...

Source: Berkeleyan Online
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate

Vote on This Bill

4% Users Support Bill

3 in favor / 78 opposed
 

Send Your Rep a Letter

about this bill Support Oppose Tracking
Track with MyOC
Save to Notebook Make A Bill Widget

Top-Rated Comments

OpenCongress is a free and open-source project of the Participatory Politics Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to increase civic engagement. The non-profit Sunlight Foundation is the Founding and Primary Supporter of OpenCongress.