Support Grows for Access to Publicly Funded Research

From American Libraries Direct

Support grows for access to publicly funded research

The presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges in the United States have declared their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act (S. 1373) in an open letter released September 23. The letter is the first from higher education administrators to be issued in support of the bill, which would require that journal articles stemming from publicly funded research be made available in an online repository no later than six months after publication....Alliance for Taxpayer Access, Sept. 23