<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">Good news on OA from here in the U.S....:)</span><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">Stay tuned. More to come! Forwarded from Heather Joseph</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">
<b style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For Immediate Release Contact: Matt Dinkel (Doyle) 202-225-2135</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Matt Manda (Yoder) 202-225-2865</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Washington, DC – February 14, 2013</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – U.S. Representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA), Kevin Yoder (R-KS), and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) today introduced legislation to increase the openness, transparency, and accessibility of publicly funded research results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) would require federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million or more to provide the public with online access to research manuscripts stemming from funded research no later than six months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">"This bill will give the American people greater access to the important scientific research results they’ve paid for,”</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Congressman Doyle said today<i>.<b>“Supporting greater collaboration among researchers in the sciences will accelerate scientific innovation and discovery, while giving the public a greater return on their scientific investment.”</b></i></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“The scientific research community benefits when they are able to share important research and cooperate across scientific fields. Likewise, taxpayers should not be required to pay twice for federally-funded research,”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">said Congressman Yoder.<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i> </i></b></span><b><i>“This legislation is common sense, and promotes more transparency, accountability, and cooperation within the scientific research community."</i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">"Everyday American taxpayer dollars are supporting researchers and scientists hard at work, when this information is shared, it can be used as a building block for future discoveries,"</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> said Representative Lofgren. <b><i>"Greater public access can accelerate breakthroughs, where robust collaborative research can lead to faster commercialization and immense benefits for the public and our economy."</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Specifically, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act would:</span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Require federal departments and agencies with an annual extramural research budget of $100 million or more, whether funded totally or partially by a government department or agency, to submit an electronic copy of the final manuscript that has been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ensure that the manuscript is preserved in a stable digital repository maintained by that agency or in another suitable repository that permits free public access, interoperability, and long-term preservation.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Require that each taxpayer-funded manuscript be made available to the public online and without cost, no later than six months after the article has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Require agencies to examine whether introducing open licensing options for research papers they make publicly available as a result of the public access policy would promote productive reuse and computational analysis of those research papers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An identical Senate counterpart of this legislation is also being introduced today by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ron Wyden (D-OR).</span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“<span class="apple-style-span">FASTR represents a giant step forward in making sure that the crucial information contained in these articles can be freely accessed</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"> </span></i></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">and fully used by all members of the public</span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">,”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing Academic Research Coalition (SPARC).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>“It h<span class="apple-s!
tyle-span">as the potential to truly revolutionize the scientific research process</span>."</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This legislation would unlock unclassified research funded by agencies like the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Defense, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The bill builds on the success of the first U.S. mandate for public access to the published results of publicly funded research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented their public access policy. It is estimated that approximately 80,000 papers are published each year from NIH funds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act echoes the interest in public access policies expressed by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, which has examined the mechanisms that would leverage federal investments in scientific research and increase access to information that promises to stimulate scientific and technological innovation and competitiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://doyle.house.gov/sites/doyle.house.gov/files/documents/2013%2002%2014%20DOYLE%20FASTR%20FINAL.pdf" style="color:purple">Click here to read the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act</a>.</span></div>
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