Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012

The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012 (still pending in committee) is long overdue legislation.  Basically, it requires that each Federal agency with extramural research expenditures of over $100,000,000 develop a Federal research public access policy.  Among other things, the policy must include "free online public access to such final peer-reviewed manuscripts or published versions as soon as practicable, but not later than 6 months after publication in peer-reviewed journals."