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Contents 1 Access to Federally Funded Research 1.1 Resources 1.2 Press 1.3 Opinion 1.4 Bills in Congress

Access to Federally Funded Research

Resources

• The Future of Taxpayer-Funded Research: Who Will Control Access to the Results? Committee for Economic Development. (Pdf)
• Alliance for Taxpayer Access
• NIH Public Access Overview
• NIH PubMed Central
• The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
• Google site search - nytimes.com "research works act"
• Public Library of Science
• Directory of Open Access Journals

Press

• House bill would open up taxpayer-funded research - The Hill, 4/19/2012
• New bill would put taxpayer-funded science behind pay walls - ProPublica, 1/12/2012
• The Research Works Act would deny taxpayers access to federally funded research - Scientific American, 1/7/2012
• AHCJ opposes taking taxpayer-funded research out of public's reach - Health Journalism, 1/18/2012
• Gulf on open access to federally financed research - New York Times, 2/27/2012

Opinion

• Research Works Act wants to end public access to taxpayer-funded research - Lana Bandoim, Yahoo, 1/8/2012
• Research Bought, Then Paid For - Michael Eisen, New York Times, 1/10/2012
• Publishers applaud "Research Works Act," bipartisan legislation to end government mandates on private-sector scholarly publishing - Association of American Publishers, 12/23/2011
• Elsevier-funded NY Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney wants to deny Americans access to taxpayer funded research - Michael Eisen, 1/5/2012
• The Research Works Act: asking the public to pay twice for scientific knowledge - Janet Stemwedel, Scientific American, 1/6/2012

Bills in Congress

• H.R. 3699. The Research Works Act. Sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. 
• H.R. 4004. Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012. Sponsored by Rep. Michael Doyle (D-PA). Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. 
• S. 2096. Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Refereed to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.