The Congressional Research Service (CRS) does not provide direct public access to its reports, requiring citizens to request them from their Member of Congress. Some Members, as well as several non-profit groups, have posted the reports on their Web sites. This site aims to provide integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available at a variety of different Web sites since 1990.
(PS: CRS reports are entirely funded by taxpayers and highly regarded for their thoroughness and quality. They ought to be OA. Several other sites already do what UNT is doing and host OA copies of leaked or released CRS reports. See the FAS collection, the Franklin Pierce Law Center collection, and Josh Ruihley's OpenCRS.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/14/2005 10:11:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
