FRPAA's back!Posted by Bob Grant
20th April 2010


"... US lawmakers ready for a coming fracas over financial reform, a bill that would make data from almost all federally funded research available to the public within six months of publication returns to the legislature's to do list...

...Doyle's version of FRPAA -- like the 2009 version, sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Cornyn (R-TX) -- would mandate the online publication of manuscripts resulting from research projects funded by all large government agencies. FRPAA 2010, also like its predecessor, would require that manuscripts be made free online within six months of their publication in peer-reviewed journals.

The bill... (would)apply to the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation, among other agencies.

The first version of FRPAA was introduced in Congress in 2006 (later dying in committee), and was modeled, like the current bill, after an open access mandate at the National Institutes of Health, which requires that all NIH-funded research be deposited in PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. ..


The latest version of FRPAA comes as science funders inside and outside the government aim to increase the public's access to data from government-funded science...

The next stop for FRPAA is the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, where Chairman Edolphus "Ed" Towns (D-NY) and his Congressional colleagues will discuss the finer points of the bill.


Read more: FRPAA's back! - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/di...#ixzz0lgbhw0Mr

web address for Chairman Towns should you feel inclined to express your support for this bill. (this site is only for supporters; any non supporters must find their own site. madelyn


http://www.house.gov/towns/contact_form_zipcheck.shtml

without the tongue in cheek statement in the previous post, PLEASE email the chariman of this committee noting your support of this bill. Without the public's voice, there will be no counter to the pharmaceutical industry and the publishing industry which publishes the medical journals. (pharma frequently purchases thousands of reprints of articles which are about their drugs-thus putting into the journals' coffers hundreds of thousands of dolllars e4ach time one of their studies/articles is accepted for publication. Buys a lot of influence. ) madelyn