Open Access Rally
It’s time for taxpayers to have access to government funded research!
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National Day of Action For Access to Publicly Funded Research
RALLY
Thursday, February 15, 2007
4:30pm, Woodruff Library North Entrance
Government grants account for fully half of the output from university-based researchers and scholars in the U.S. In biology and biomedical-related disciplines alone – for example – the National Institutes of Health fund research that result in a tremendous 65,000 academic articles each year.
Yet: even though taxpayer money funds this research, the resulting articles are often published in journals to which many libraries cannot afford to subscribe.
Many organizations have been working together to change this. For example, there were two initiatives presented to the 109th U.S. Congress designed to make the results of federally funded research publicly available that will likely be reconsidered this year: the NIH Public Access Policy and the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA). These initiatives focus on removing access barriers by making the peer-reviewed results of taxpayer-funded research available online for no extra charge to the American public - including researchers, teachers, and students.
Learn more at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/students/
