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

[Elizabeth Stark]

I think we can do something kind of big here. Barbie in a Blender style..

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Baker <gavin at gavinbaker.com> wrote:

> Yes, please get involved :)
>
> Need any help, holla at me!
>
> Elizabeth Stark wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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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