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US legislators table a hard-hitting OA bill.
Byline: Mark Chillingworth
US legislators table a hard-hitting OA bill
Mark Chillingworth
A hard-hitting newly-tabled piece of US legislation could radically alter access to US-funded scientific research and embarrass the EC over its lack of clarity and action in its report on scientific publishing last month.
Hard on the heels of the EC report (see page 3), Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Cornyn have proposed that US-funded research papers should be available freely within six months.
The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 states that every federal agency with a research budget over $100 million would have to implement a public access policy, which would require researchers funded by the US government to submit an article to a peer-review journal and to ensure free online access is available within six months.
Lieberman and Cornyn also demand that scientists should have to ...
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