{"id":1295,"date":"2013-02-15T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeleisen.org\/blog\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2013-02-15T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:44:08","slug":"lets-make-2013-the-year-of-legislative-access-on-open-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeleisen.org\/blog\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"Let’s make 2013 the year of legislative access on open access"},"content":{"rendered":"

FASTR shortens the acceptable delay from 12 months to 6 months (still 6 months longer than it should be, but headed in the right direction), and, very importantly, adds a requirement that the works be available for text mining and other forms of reuse. It’s not perfect, but it’s very good, and passage of this bill would be a significant milestone in the push for public access to the results of federally funded research.<\/p>\n

Previous versions of this bill have gone nowhere, but this is the time. Supporters of open access in the US should contact their representatives in Washington<\/a> and urge them to sign on as cosponsors of this bill and push for it to reach the House and Senate floor. And every month we should renew this pressure – I hereby declare the first Friday of every month #FASTRFriday (which we will celebrate today for February). Let’s keep the pressure on Congress and see this one through.<\/p>\n

Public access legislation is also being introduced in Illinois, New York and California, and I will post updates when these bills are introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"