[Libs-Or] ACTION Needed: Road blocks to federally funded research

[Diedre Conkling]

http://www.districtdispatch.org/2014/03/road-blocks-federally-funded-research/

Road blocks to federally funded research
Posted on March 11, 2014 by jmcgilvray

H.R. 4186, the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology
Act (FIRST)<http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4186?q=%7b%22search%22%3A%5b%22H.R.+4186%22%5d%7d>was
introduced yesterday in the House of Representatives by Chairman Lamar
Smith (R-TX) and Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-IN) and referred to the Committee on
Science, Space, and Technology, and to the Committee on Small Business. The
ALA stands with SPARC <http://www.sparc.arl.org/> in opposing Section 303
of this bill; a provision that would create unnecessary obstacles to the
public's ability to access research funded by tax-payers.

Now is not the time to create unwarranted challenges to the access of
tax-payer funded research. After years of effort, the open access community
celebrated the White House Directive on Public Access to the Results of
Federally Funded
Research<http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf>and
the addition to the FY14 Omnibus Appropriations Act to expand the
National Institutes of Health's access program to include the Departments
of Labor, Education and Health and Human Services. These programs would
more rapidly make the results of this research available to the public;
while Section 303 would create challenges to federal agencies as they
endeavor to participate.

Among other things, Section 303 would:

   - Establish a minimum allowed embargo period of 24 months, and allow its
   further
   extension to 36 months. No provisions to reduce embargo periods are
   included in this legislation.
   - Sanction simply linking to full text of articles on publishers
   websites, without ensuring that federal agencies retain a copy of the text
   of the articles reporting on their funded research.
   - Require federal agencies to repeat the work that they have already
   done in drafting plans for policies as required by the White House
   Directive on public access, and introduce an additional 18 month minimum
   delay while this work is duplicated.

Please take a moment to contact your
Representative<http://sparc.arl.org/advocacy/national/first>to express
your dismay of a bill that would delay the public's right to
information.


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