New Bill to Repeal NIH Open Access Policy

pigah writes: "The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act has been reintroduced into Congress. The bill will ban open access policies in federal agencies. These policies require scientists to provide public access to their work if it has been funded with money from an agency with an open access policy. Such policies ensure that the public has access to read the results of research that it has funded. It appears that John Conyers (D-MI), the author of the bill, is doing the bidding of publishing companies who do not want to lose control of this valuable information that they sell for exorbitant fees thereby restricting access by the general public to an essentially public good. The link is to Peter Suber's blog post about the bill."