ALA sends letter to Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee in support of Federal Research Public Access Act
As part of our ongoing efforts to champion open access, the ALA Washington Office today submitted a letter to members of the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, voicing our support for the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 (S. 1373). Specifically, the letter includes the resolution passed by the ALA Council at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference held recently in Chicago.
This bill, introduced by Sens. Lieberman and Cornyn, would help ensure free, timely online access to the published results of taxpayer-funded research produced by 11 U.S. federal agencies and departments.
More information on this legislation can be found here.
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[...] of Congress now? The ALA strongly supports S. 1373, and this summer the ALA Council adopted a resolution in support of it (reaffirming its support from 2006). The resolution has been faxed to the Senators listed [...]