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February 05, 2007

Students Rally for Access to Publicly Funded Research

Press release from The Alliance for Taxpayer Access:

February 15th marks the fifth anniversary of the landmark Budapest Open Access Initiative, when the worldwide open access movement first took form. In recognition of this historic day, Freeculture.org, the international student movement for free culture, and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA) will a hold a "National Day of Action”. The organizers hope to rally support for Congressional passage of the Federal Research Public Access Act, an act that is awaiting reintroduction in the 110th Congress. If passed, the bill would require federal agencies that fund over $100 million in annual external research to make manuscripts of peer-reviewed journal articles stemming from that research publicly available via the Internet. (http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/frpaa/).

Campuses nationwide will be announcing individual events and support for the National Day of Action in the coming weeks. For more information, please visit the freeculture.org-Alliance for Taxpayer Access student resource at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org.

Click here to read the full press.

Posted by erushton at February 5, 2007 10:05 AM