[BOAI] Open letter from 27 universities in support of FRPAA

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Harvard University.  --Peter Suber.]


A coalition of President, Provosts, and research Vice Presidents of 27 of
the nation’s leading research universities and colleges has issued an open
letter calling for greatly increased public access to the results of
research funded by major federal agencies, including the National Institutes
of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The letter has been issued in support of the Federal Research Public Access
Act (FRPAA), which is currently working its way through Congress. The letter
notes that FRPAA “builds upon the success of the first U.S. policy for
public access to publicly funded research – implemented in 2008 through the
National Institutes of Health – and mirrors the intent of campus-based
policies for research access that are being adopted by a growing number of
public and private institutions across the nation.

“We believe that this legislation represents a watershed and provides an
opportunity for the entire U.S. higher education and research community to
draw upon their traditional partnerships and collaboratively realize the
unquestionably good intentions of the Bill’s framers – broadening access to
publicly funded research in order to accelerate the advancement of knowledge
and maximize the related public good,” the letter says.

The signers of the letter are representatives of, among other institutions,
Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Cornell, Duke, Indiana Universities, two
campuses of the University of Texas, the University of California system and
two of its individual campuses, Stanford University, Tulane University, and
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

The letter has been posted on the website of Steven E. Hyman, Harvard
Provost and a signer, at
http://www.provost.harvard.edu/reports/FRPAA_Open_Letter.pdf
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