Re: ISCB Strongly Opposes Efforts to Limit Open Access

[Andrea]

ISCB Conferences wrote:

Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,

As many of you may be aware, the U.S. House of Representatives has
recently been presented with a bill called the Research Works Act (HR
3699) that threatens the current U.S. requirements of public access to
federally funded research results. ISCB strongly opposes this bill.
Burkhard Rost, ISCB President, and Richard Lathrop, ISCB Public
Affairs & Policies Committee Chair, are drafting a letter to the
bill's authors that expresses our opposition and emphasizes the
importance of the ISCB Public Policy Statement on Open Access to
Scientific and Technical Research Literature that was released in
2010. If you are a member of ISCB and have not yet signed on to our
statement, you are invited to do so at your earliest opportunity via
the link to current signatories on the policy page noted above.

Thank you,

BJ Morrison McKay, ISCB Executive Officer

on behalf of Burkhard Rost, Richard Lathrop, and the ISCB Board of
Directors









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