On the recordMarch 18, 2015
I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 779 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that-- (1) the Federal Government funds basic and applied research with the expectation that new ideas and discoveries that result from the research, if shared and effectively disseminated, will advance science and improve the lives and welfare of people of the United States and around the world; (2) the Internet makes it possible for this information to be promptly available to every scientist, physician, educator, and citizen at home, in school, or in a library; and (3) the United States has a substantial interest in maximizing the impact and utility of the research it funds by enabling a wide range of reuses of the peer-reviewed literature that reports the results of such research, including by enabling computational analysis by state-of-the- art technologies. SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF FEDERAL AGENCY. In this Act, the term ``Federal agency'' means an Executive agency, as defined under section 105 of title 5, United States Code. SEC. 4. FEDERAL RESEARCH PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY.…
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