Control-F Bomb
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This story is from our July 2023 issue of?The Brief—C&E's monthly newsletter covering professional and scholarly communication.?Read the full issue here.
Control-F Bomb
On July 13th, the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee released their proposed?Fiscal Year 2024 bill for the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee. In that proposed bill, section 552 would block any funds from being used to “implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s August 25, 2022, Memorandum to Executive Departments and Agencies entitled, ‘Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research’” (also known as the Nelson Memo). While some immediately jumped to the conclusion that this bill language was the result of publishing industry lobbying, the STM Association has told?The Brief?that they did not advocate for the inclusion of this language and only learned about it when it became public.?
Our sources suggest a much simpler explanation that has nothing to do with publishing or science policy per se. Rather, the language in the bill is a far more blunt instrument drafted by far-right members of Congress opposed to all things they perceive as “woke.”...
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