New Bill Would Require More Research Results Online
Taxpayer Alliance supports senate bill broadening access to federal research
“The Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA) gives full support to the “Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006,” introduced today by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT). The bill requires federal agencies that fund over $100 million in annual external research to make electronic manuscripts of peer-reviewed journal articles stemming from their research publicly available via the Internet.”