{"id":925,"date":"2012-02-09T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T15:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeleisen.org\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2012-02-09T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:31:27","slug":"new-bill-in-congress-would-expand-federal-public-access-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeleisen.org\/blog\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"New bill in Congress would EXPAND federal public access policies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A showdown is looming in Congress as defenders of the public interest have moved to counter the special interest sellout<\/a> of the pending\u00a0Research Works Act <\/a>(RWA), which would end public access to the results of Federally funded research.\u00a0A bipartisan group of legislators in both houses of \u00a0Congress just introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) of 2012<\/a> which would require Federal agencies that fund significant amounts of extramural research (more than $100 million per year) to implement public access policies similar in aims to that already in place at the NIH.<\/p>\n

Let’s make sure the good guys win by transforming the public outcry against RWA into support for FRPAA. Write to your reps and urge them to support the bill, and write\u00a0to the following legislators to thank them for their ongoing support of this important piece of public policy:<\/p>\n