[Insight-users] OPEN ACCESS: Support the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)

[Luis Ibanez]

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From:
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If you are a supporter of *Open Access*, here is a unique opportunity to
make a big step toward making the results of scientific research accessible
to all:

The Federal Research Public Access
Act<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.1373:>(
*FRPAA*)
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What this legislation will do:  *

Every federal agency with an *annual extramural research budget of $100
million* or more will implement a *public access policy* that is consistent
with and advances the federal purpose of the respective agency.  Each agency
must:

   - Require each researcher – funded totally or partially by the agency –
   to submit an electronic copy of the final manuscript that has been accepted
   for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
   - Ensure that the manuscript is preserved in a stable digital repository
   maintained by that agency or in another suitable repository that permits
   free public access, interoperability, and long-term preservation. Agencies
   have the flexibility to choose the best suitable location for their
   repository.
   - Require that free, online access to each taxpayer-funded manuscript be
   available as soon as possible, and no later than six months after the
   article has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

*To whom this policy applies: *

   - Any researcher *employed* by a federal agency with an annual research
   budget exceeding $100 million who publishes an article based on the work
   done for the funding agency in a peer-reviewed journal.
   - Any researcher *funded* by a federal agency with an annual research
   budget exceeding $100 million who publishes an article based on the funded
   research in a peer-reviewed journal.

Today, only the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have a public access
policy <http://publicaccess.nih.gov/>. This new legislation will extend this
level of openness to other federal agencies, including:


   - Department of Agriculture
   - Department of Commerce
   - Department of Defense
   - Department of Education,
   - Department of Energy
   - Department of Health and Human Services
   - Department of Homeland Security
   - Department of Transportation
   - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
   - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
   - National Science Foundation (NSF).

In summary, all agencies with an annual *extramural budget *above *$100
million*.

For a detailed list, see the analysis of the US Research Federal budget for
2010 provided by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS): http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/fy2010/total10c.pdf

Details about the Federal Research Public Access Act (HR
5037)<http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/frpaa/index.shtml>
act are discussed at

   - http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/frpaa/frpaa_action/10-0416.shtml
   - http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/frpaa/index.shtml

The Bill was introduced by on April 15 by Representatives

   - Doyle (D-PA), Waxman (D-CA)
   - Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL)
   - Harper (R-MS)
   - Boucher (D-VA) and
   - Rohrabacher (R-CA)

*How would you deal with Copyright when submitting your papers to a Journal
?*

When the author of an article is a federal grantee or is working for a
federal grantee, he or she normally grants to the funding agency a
non-exclusive and irrevocable license to “reproduce, publish, or otherwise
use the work for Federal purposes, and to authorize others to do so”
(2CFR215.36(a)). Posting the article in an online repository falls within
these delineated rights. Any assignment of copyright by an author subsequent
to accepting a federal grant is subject to the agency’s pre-existing,
non-exclusive license: http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/bm~doc/faq2009.pdf
<http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/bm%7Edoc/faq2009.pdf>


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