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Byline: Mark Chillingworth
AAP club to fight US Fed Research Act
Mark Chillingworth
STM publishers are coming together within the Association of American Publishers (AAP) to fight the proposed Federal Research Public Access Act 2006.
The US Act aims to ensure that all research papers funded by the US government are made publicly available within six months.
The Professional Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the AAP, which boasts McGraw Hill, Springer, John Wiley & Sons and Elsevier as members, is fighting the Act. Brian Crawford, chairman of the PSP, said: "If passed, the legislation will seriously jeopardise the integrity of the scientific publishing process."
Crawford argues that the act will undermine peer review and remove the "incentive" to publish scientific, technical and medical material. As a result, Crawford believes that ...
Source: HighBeam Research, AAP club to fight US Fed Research Act.