ResearchWorksAct

Why the Research Works Act?

[this is a stub for a page that is intended to help explain why we need the Research Works Act. I invite supporters and opponents to try to suss out the reasons there are for this anti-open-access bill, and in particular, to focus on the relationship that money has to this bill]

Pro-arguments

Countering the given reasons

• For major statements of opposition to the bill, and information on the money given by publishers to the bill's co-sponsors, see Notes on the Research Works Act from the Harvard Open Access Project.