UPDATED: U.S. Congressional Hearing: "Public Access to Federally-Funded Research"
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Congressional Hearing
Event Title: "Public Access to Federally-Funded Research"
The Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Archives, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Mr. Allan Adler
Vice President, Government Affairs
Association of American Publishers
Dr. Steven Breckler
Executive Director for Science
American Psychological Association
Professor Ralph Oman
Pavel Professorial Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law Fellow
Creative and Innovative Economy Center
The George Washington University Law School
Panel II
Dr. Richard Roberts
Chief Scientific Officer
New England Biolabs
Ms. Sharon Terry
President and CEO
Genetic Alliance
Mr. Elliott Maxwell
Project Director, Digital Connections Council
Committee for Economic Development
Professor Sophia Colamarino
Vice President, Research
Autism Speaks
Dr. David Shulenburger
Vice President, Academic Affairs
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
Ms. Catherine Nancarrow
Managing Editor
Public Library of Science Community Journals
Panel III
Dr. David Lipman
Director, NCBI, NLM
National Institutes of Health
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National Archives announced it will hold a hearing on the issue of public access to federally funded research on Thursday, July 29. The hearing will provide an opportunity for the Committee to hear the perspectives of a broad range of stakeholders on the potential impact of opening up access to the results of the United States’ more than $60 billion annual investment in scientific research.
The Subcommittee’s interest stems from the growing number of visible expressions of interest in the issue of public access that have surfaced in recent months, in both the Legislative and Executive branches of government. Notably, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy earlier this year hosted a Public Access Policy Forum on mechanisms that would leverage federal investments in scientific research and increase access to information.
Additionally, H.R. 5037, the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which was introduced into the House on April 15 by Rep. Mike Doyle (R-PA) and is supported by a growing bi-partisan host of cosponsors, was referred to the Committee. The bill, and its identical Senate counterpart (introduced by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and John Cornyn (R-TX)), proposes to require those eleven federal agencies with extramural research budgets of $100 million or more to implement policies that deliver timely, free, online public access to the published results of the research they fund.
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