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Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act

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unanimously approved the bill on July 29, 2015. It was the first time that the bill or any of its predecessors had gained committee approval and been forwarded to a full house of Congress.
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A bill to provide for Federal agencies to develop public access policies relating to research conducted by employees of that agency or from funds administered by that agency.
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Senator Wyden advocated for the passage of the bill by arguing that "taxpayer funded research should never be hidden behind a paywall."
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As of 2024 the bill has not been enacted, partially due to lobbying by anti-open access publishers and trade groups such as
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to "Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research."
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FASTR has been described as "The Other Aaron's Law", named for open-access activist
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who died in a dramatic case in support of open access research in January 2013.
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The bill is often compared to and discussed in conjunction with the
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Days after FASTR was introduced in 2013, the Executive Branch's
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Notes on the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary Government Data Act
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Proposed legislation of the 115th United States Congress
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Proposed legislation of the 114th United States Congress
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Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress
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Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
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Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
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Great Seal of the United States
Acronyms
Ron Wyden
John Cornyn
Zoe Lofgren
Mike Doyle
Kevin Yoder
Federal Research Public Access Act
Aaron Swartz
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Public Access to Public Science (PAPS) Act
Elsevier
Association of American Publishers
Office of Science and Technology Policy
online Whitehouse petition
Open access
Academic journal publishing reform
Serials crisis
Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary Government Data Act
"S.350 - Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2013"
"H.R.708 - Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2013"
"S.779 - Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015"
"H.R.1477 - Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015"
"S.1701 - Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2017"
"H.R.3427 - Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2017"
"Wyden Bill Makes Taxpayer Funded Research Available to the Public"
"The Other Aaron's Law: How FASTR Could Help Americans Access The Research They Paid For"
"Senate panel approves public access bill"
"Notes on the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act - Harvard Open Access Project"
"How should scientific publishing fit into a "world digital library"?"

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