Scholarly Journal Publishers Voice Opposition to Public Access Act

• It undermines publishers’ investments in new business models that currently provide unprecedented access for the public to such works for free or at modest cost.

• At a time when Congress is looking to cut unnecessary expenses in federal government and focus budgets on priorities, FRPAA imposes additional costs on all federal agencies by requiring them to divert critical research funding to the creation and management of new databases, archives and infrastructure to handle dissemination of these articles — functions already being performed by private-sector publishers.

Source: AAP.