[Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

[Fred Bauder]

Another article:

http://chronicle.com/article/Who-Gets-to-See-Published/130403/

> "Elsevier has supported a proposed federal law, the Research Works Act
> (HR 3699), that could prevent agencies like the National Institutes of
> Health from making all articles written by grant recipients freely
> available."
>
> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.03699:
>
> "Research Works Act - Prohibits a federal agency from adopting,
> maintaining, continuing, or otherwise engaging in any policy, program, or
> other activity that: (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network
> dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior
> consent of the publisher; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective
> author, or the author's employer, assent to such network dissemination.
>
> Defines "private-sector research work" as an article intended to be
> published in a scholarly or scientific publication, or any version of
> such an article, that is not a work of the U.S. government, describing or
> interpreting research funded in whole or in part by a federal agency and
> to which a commercial or nonprofit publisher has made or has entered into
> an arrangement to make a value-added contribution, including peer review
> or editing, but does not include progress reports or raw data outputs
> routinely required to be created for and submitted directly to a funding
> agency in the course of research."
>
> Fred
>
>
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