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<font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Peter Suber</font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Director, Harvard Open Access Project</font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Faculty Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society</font></div>
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<font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><font><br></font><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Steve Hitchcock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk">sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">We must be grateful for Alan M. Garber's extensive and detailed submission for Harvard to the White House RFI on OA to US federally funded research. There appear to be counter moves. Garber refers to<br>
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> Some publishers have gone to the<br>
</font><div class="im"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">> legislature, and backed the so-called Fair Copyright in Research Works<br>
> Act (H.R. 6845 in the 110th Congress and H.R. 801 in the 111th<br>
> Congress), which would amend U.S. copyright law precisely to block the<br>
> NIH policy and to prevent other federal agencies from following its lead.<br>
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</font></div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">I'm not familiar with the process of US legislation, but the current focus for publishers appears to be<br>
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H.R.3699<br>
Latest Title: Research Works Act<br>
Sponsor: Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49] (introduced 12/16/2011)<br>
<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.3699" target="_blank">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.3699</a>:<br>
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This is the response of the Association of American Publishers (AAP)<br>
Publishers Applaud “Research Works Act,” Bipartisan Legislation To End Government Mandates on Private-Sector Scholarly Publishing (23 Dec 2011)<br>
<a href="http://www.publishers.org/press/56/" target="_blank">http://www.publishers.org/press/56/</a><br>
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Can anyone explain the implications of these different legislative approaches, the White House RFI and H.R.3699, and how OA supporters should respond?<br>
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Steve<br>
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