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February 16, 2012 03:08 am GMT
This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a site that serves as a platform for academics to share their research papers and to interact with each other. Note that Price is not unbiased in this discussion should the Research Works Act pass, it would decrease the number of papers the site would be able to easily distribute among researchers. But, as he explains, his viewpoint is shared by many academics.Poorly thought-through copyright bills seem to be popular in Congress these days.Congress is currently considering a bill called The Research Works Act, whose purpose is to restrict public access to publicly-funded research. The bill is sponsored by large academic publishers who are keen to keep all research, including publicly-funded research, behind paywalls in perpetuity.
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The Dangerous Research Works Act
This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a site that serves as a platform for academics to share their research papers and to interact with each other. Note that Price is not unbiased in this discussion should the Research Works Act pass, it would decrease the number of papers the site would be able to easily distribute among researchers. But, as he explains, his viewpoint is shared by many academics.Poorly thought-through copyright bills seem to be popular in Congress these days.Congress is currently considering a bill called The Research Works Act, whose purpose is to restrict public access to publicly-funded research. The bill is sponsored by large academic publishers who are keen to keep all research, including publicly-funded research, behind paywalls in perpetuity.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QjLzHIT-XZg/
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