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Research Works ActAKA Greedy Bastards

Get Greedier

This Man

Darrell Issa (R-CA)

And This Women

Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY)

Grrrrrr

Want to take research which is federally funded or rather funded by you and make sure that it is

not publicly available.

Poop List

What lunatic support this madness?Association of American Publishers

&Copyright Alliance

Who is opposed?

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

the Alliance for Taxpayer Accessthe American Library Association

the International Society for Computational Biology

And….

Again…

“But a bill introduced in the House of Representatives last month threatens to cripple this site. The Research Works Act would forbid the N.I.H. to require, as it now does, that its grantees provide copies of the papers they publish in peer-reviewed journals to the library. If the bill passes, to read the results of federally funded research, most Americans would have to buy access to individual articles at a cost of $15 or $30 apiece. In other words, taxpayers who already paid for the research would have to pay again to read the results. ” http://nyti.ms/yTKdjH

Who buy a Politician to do something so shady?

• If passed, the Research Works Act (RWA) would prohibit the NIH's public access policy and anything similar enacted by other federal agencies, locking publicly funded research behind paywalls. The result would be an ethical disaster: preventable deaths in developing countries, and an incalculable loss for science in the USA and worldwide. The only winners would be publishing corporations such as Elsevier (£724m profits on revenues of £2b in 2010 – an astounding 36% of revenue taken as profit). http://bit.ly/Ar5jyP

Preventable Deaths?

“Closed access means people die. I don’t think anyone can deny the truth of that conclusion. If a doctor, a patient, a planner, an engineer, cannot read the appropriate literature then they make suboptimal decisions. And that means people die. So the balance is: If we want a closed access publishing system then we have to accept that the price is people’s lives.” http://bit.ly/rp8V2a

One more time dammit…

“Elsevier-funded NY Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Wants to Deny Americans Access to

Taxpayer Funded Research”http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=807

Issa is pro OPEN AKA Online Protection and Enforcement of

Digital Trade Acthttp://bit.ly/w7T2kW

OPEN? (Squint Hard!)“The OPEN Act was proposed as an alternative to the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), which was approved by the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in May 2011, and the closely related Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was introduced by House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) in November. After an initial description on December 2 as an outline of possible approaches authored by a bipartisan group of eleven lawmakers,[14][15] a draft text was made public on December 8, 2011 in advance of a House Judiciary markup of the SOPA Act the following week. The OPEN Act seeks to stop transfers of money to foreign websites whose primary purpose is piracy or counterfeiting, whereas SOPA and PIPA also seek to require Internet providers and search engines to redirect users away from viewing the sites. The PROTECT IP Act proposed to do this by blocking domain name resolution, whereas SOPA imposes a broader requirement for network providers to "prevent access by its subscribers located within the United States" including blocking by IP address and possibly deep packet inspection.[3]” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEN_Act

Now go tell them what you think.