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• Latest Action: Dec 16, 2011 Introduced in House

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• Committee Assignment: House Oversight and Government Reform

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• Association of American Publishers

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• Ecological Society of America

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• Copyright Alliance

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• Software & Information Industry Association

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• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

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• American Association of Law Libraries

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• The Alliance for Taxpayer Access

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• International Society for Computational Biology

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• American Association for the Advancement of Science

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• Alliance for Taxpayer Access

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• American Medical Student Association

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• Medical Library Association

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• Special Libraries Association

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• M.I.T. Press

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• ITHAKA

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• Pennsylvania State University Press

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• University of California Press

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• Right to Research Coalition

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• Association of Health Care Journalists

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• Association of College & Research Libraries

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