Public Access to Federally Funded Research

April 5, 2012

A Brown Bag Session
April 9, 2012
Noon – 1:00 p.m.

Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A
Harvard Law School

Does mandating free online access to papers resulting from federally funded research violate the Copyright Act or treaty obligations? A distinguished pair of panelists will discuss this question, in the context of the broader policy issues raised by such open access mandates. They will consider the pending Federal Research Public Access Act, as well as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy.