Another article: http://chronicle.com/article/Who-Gets-to-See-Published/130403/
> "Elsevier has supported a proposed federal law, the Research Works Act > (HR 3699), that could prevent agencies like the National Institutes of > Health from making all articles written by grant recipients freely > available." > > http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.03699: > > "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." > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
