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Open Access Under Attack

By apalazzo on September 23, 2008.

I'm back from Toronto. And now I'm just trying to keep up with all the crap I haven't dealt with in the last few days. Tomorrow we have an RNA Data club meeting (info here) and then I got this interesting email about some terrible legislation that might actually come to a vote tomorrow:

On September 11, 2008, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (Rep. John Conyers, D-MI) introduced a bill that would effectively reverse the NIH Public Access Policy, as well as make it impossible for other federal agencies to put similar policies into place.

The legislation is HR6845: "Fair Copyright in Research Works Act". You can read more about the intentions of this legislation here.

Please contact your Representative and Senators no later than September 24, 2008 to express your support for public access to taxpayer-funded research and ask that he or she OPPOSE HR6845.

Especially important are members of the House Judiciary Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee.

For more, read what Bora had to say.

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