{"id":438,"date":"2013-02-18T15:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T21:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-02-18T15:23:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T21:23:33","slug":"fastr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/fastr\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-03-01-at-11.57.16-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-423\" alt=\"open access logo\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-03-01-at-11.57.16-AM-300x295.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-03-01-at-11.57.16-AM-300x295.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-03-01-at-11.57.16-AM.png 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/1.usa.gov\/Vh6zPI\">FASTR Act <\/a>was introduced into both the House of Representatives and the Senate last week, sponsored by a bipartisan group of legislators: Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), and Kevin Yoder (R-KS).<\/p>\n<p>FASTR will require federal agencies that spend at least $100 million\/year to fund extramural research to make the products of their funding, specifically peer reviewed, scholarly research articles, open access within six months of publication.<\/p>\n<p>FASTR will provide near-immediate access to taxpayer-funded research, and will impact major federal agencies, including the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about FASTR, please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arl.org\/sparc\/resources\/sparc-faq-for-the-fair-access-to-science-and-techn.shtml\">FAQ<\/a> developed by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition or the Alliance for Taxpayer Access <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxpayeraccess.org\/action\/FASTR_calltoaction.shtml\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FASTR Act was introduced into both the House of Representatives and the Senate last week, sponsored by a bipartisan group of legislators: Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/fastr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}