Research Works Act (US) seeks to curtail open access

The Research Works Act would deny taxpayers access to federally funded research: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/crude-matter/2012/01/07/the-research-works-act-would-deny-taxpayers-access-to-federally-funded-research/

The Research Works Act (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3699:) argues that publishers have intellectual property invested in work that they publish so making research available open access are illegal.

While a press release by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) states:
…. The Research Works Act will prohibit federal agencies from unauthorized free public dissemination of journal articles that report on research which, to some degree, has been federally-funded but is produced and published by private sector publishers receiving no such funding. It would also prevent non-government authors from being required to agree to such free distribution of these works. http://www.publishers.org/press/56/

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