Joe Mullin has published "Congress Will Finally Make Its Research Reports Public" in DeepLinks.
Here's an excerpt:
Open access activists have long been asking for reports by the Congressional Research Service, or CRS, to be made publicly and easily available. . . .
Now, those reports will be published directly by Congress. If you dig down to page 1092 of the omnibus bill [PDF] passed last week, you'll find the provision requiring all CRS reports to be published on a public website. The law specifies that the reports must be "searchable, sortable, and downloadable, including downloadable in bulk." Finally, it notes that CRS reports "are not subject to copyright protection in the United States."
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