[FC-discuss] "Scientific publishers get a law introduced to end free publication of govt-funded research"

[Elizabeth Stark]

There's a great opportunity for us to get involved in activism against this
bill, especially involving chapters. Ideas for how we can best do this?

I know Change Congress is looking to target it as well.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/16/scientific-publisher.html
>
> "Steve sez, "Currently, the National Institutes of Health require
> NIH-funded research to be published in open-access repositories. In a
> cop to for-profit science publishers, Congressional Representative
> John Conyers (D-MI) has re-introduced a bill (HR801) that essentially
> would negate the NIH policy concerning depositing research in OA
> repositories. The bill goes further than prohibiting open access
> requirements, however, as the bill also prohibits government agencies
> from obtaining a license to publicly distribute, perform, or display
> such work by, for example, placing it on the Internet, and would
> repeal the longstanding 'federal purpose' doctrine, under which all
> federal agencies that fund the creation of a copyrighted work reserve
> the 'royalty-free, nonexclusive right to reproduce, publish, or
> otherwise use the work' for any federal purpose. The bill is bad
> news." "
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