<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/bm.assets/rss.css" ?>
<rss version="2.0"
     xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
     xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
    <title>Alliance for Taxpayer Access - Issues</title> 
    <description></description> 
    <language>en</language>
    <lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:03:06 UT</lastBuildDate>
    <generator>Big Medium 2.0.8</generator>
    <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
    <link>http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/index.shtml</link>
    <atom:link href="http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/bm~feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />

    <item>
    <title>Lawmakers Hear Arguments for and Against Open Access to Research</title>
    <description>
by Jennifer Howard
</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:03:05 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://chronicle.com/article/Lawmakers-Hear-Arguments-for/123719/</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-9269</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/Taxpayer Access to Research/Media Coverage
    </category>
    <category>
        Issues/National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy/Media Coverage
    </category>
    <category>
        Issues/Federal Research Public Access Act 2006/Media Coverage
    </category>
    <category>
        News
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>Open Access to Information</title>
    <description>
UNESCO supports actions designed to empower people so that they can access and contribute to information and knowledge flows.
</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:56:41 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30671&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-9219</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/Taxpayer Access to Research/Media Coverage
    </category>
    <category>
        News
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>Media Coverage</title>
    <description>

</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:27:01 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/whitehouse/whitehouse_news/index.shtml</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-9153</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/White House Request for Information/Media Coverage
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>Resources</title>
    <description>

</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:26:48 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/whitehouse/whitehouse_resources/index.shtml</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-9152</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/White House Request for Information/Resources
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>What ATA is Doing</title>
    <description>

</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:26:34 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/whitehouse/whitehouse_action/index.shtml</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-9151</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/White House Request for Information/What ATA is Doing
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>Who Supports This</title>
    <description>

</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:26:20 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/whitehouse/whitehouse_supporters/index.shtml</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-9150</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/White House Request for Information/Who Supports This
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>The Backroad Librarian: Five Forwards</title>
    <description>
By Marcel LaFlamme&lt;br /&gt;
Keeping rural libraries vital requires keeping them free of charge and pushing for open access to materials. Libraries are people-centers, not warehouses for books.
</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:55:00 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.dailyyonder.com/backroad-librarian-forward-future/2010/06/24/2813</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-9125</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/Federal Research Public Access Act/Media Coverage
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>White House Request for Information</title>
    <description>

</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:34:30 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/whitehouse/index.shtml</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-9119</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/White House Request for Information
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>Update on activities related to public access (May 2010)</title>
    <description>

</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 17:50:16 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/access/10-0521.shtml</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-8981</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/Taxpayer Access to Research
    </category>
    <category>
        Issues/Federal Research Public Access Act
    </category>
    <category>
        News/More News from the Alliance
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>You deserve access to research</title>
    <description>
by David Carlson, &lt;em&gt;Southern Illinoisan&lt;/em&gt;
</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:35:00 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://http://www.thesouthern.com/news/opinion/article_c6f16ae2-6491-11df-ac79-001cc4c03286.html</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-8991</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/Taxpayer Access to Research/Media Coverage
    </category>
    <category>
        Issues/Federal Research Public Access Act/Media Coverage
    </category>
    <category>
        News
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>Stanford supports bill for public access to research</title>
    <description>
by An Le Nguyen, &lt;em&gt;The Stanford Daily&lt;/em&gt;
</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:25:00 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/05/11/stanford-supports-bill-for-public-access-to-research/</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-9107</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/Federal Research Public Access Act/Media Coverage
    </category>
    <category>
        News
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>MAJOR RESEARCH INSTITUTION LEADERS SUPPORT LEGISLATION TO ENSURE PUBLIC ACCESS TO PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCH</title>
    <description>
The provosts and presidents of 27 major private and public research institutions have voiced their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act in an “Open Letter to the Higher Education Community,” released Friday by the Harvard University Provost. The Act, first introduced in the Senate last year, was introduced in the House of Representatives on April 15. The letter signals expanded support for public access to publicly funded research among the largest research institutions in the U.S.
</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 15:21:28 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/access/access_supporters/10-0503.shtml</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-8948</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/Taxpayer Access to Research/Who Supports This
    </category>
    <category>
        Issues/Federal Research Public Access Act/Who Supports This
    </category>
    <category>
        News/More News from the Alliance
    </category>
    <category>
        Supporters/Research Institutions &amp; Libraries
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>Federal Research Access Bill Making Progress in Congress</title>
    <description>
By Josh Hadro, &lt;em&gt;Library Journal&lt;/em&gt;
</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:35:00 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6726970.html?nid=2673&amp;source=title&amp;rid=17181909</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-8908</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/Federal Research Public Access Act/Media Coverage
    </category>
    <category>
        News
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>FRPAA's back!</title>
    <description>
By Bob Grant, from &lt;em&gt;The Scientist&lt;/em&gt;
</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:30:00 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57343/</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-8896</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/Federal Research Public Access Act/Media Coverage
    </category>
    <category>
        News
    </category>


    </item>

    <item>
    <title>FRPAA - another small step for mankind?</title>
    <description>
A letter of support for the FRPAA bill from the Electronic Publishing  Trust for Development, April 20th 2010
</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:25:00 UT</pubDate>
    <link>http://epublishingtrust.blogspot.com/2010/04/frpaa-another-small-step-for-mankind.html</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">eae0d647fa4995ba1f7061f90fb3f42a-8895</guid>

    <category>
        Issues/Federal Research Public Access Act/Who Supports This
    </category>
    <category>
        Issues/Federal Research Public Access Act/Media Coverage
    </category>
    <category>
        News
    </category>


    </item>

</channel> 
</rss>