Mike Doyle
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FASTR Aims To Speed Open Access To Government-Funded Research
[...] If passed, FASTR would require government agencies with annual extramural research expenditures of more than $100 million make electronic manuscripts of peer-reviewed journal articles based on their research freely available on the Internet within six months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Read More »
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Publishers Flip Out, Call Bill To Provide Open Access To Federally Funded Works A 'Boondoggle'
A year ago, we wrote about Rep. Mike Doyle introducing an important bill to provide public access to publicly funded research. [...] Unlike just about any other publication, [academic] journals don't pay their writers (and in many subject areas, authors need to pay to submit), they don't pay the peer reviewers -- and then they charge positively insane amounts to university libraries... Read More »
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U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder Touts Bill That Would Make Research More Available During Kansas U Visit
If taxpayers help fund scholarly research, U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder said Wednesday, then it ought to be free and available for anyone to see. Read More »
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Yoder Promotes Open Access To Tax-Funded Research
U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder stood alone among the Kansas congressional delegation Wednesday as sponsor of legislation requiring research funded by federal agencies be made available to the public within six months of publication in a scholarly journal. Read More »
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