Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports have long among the most sought after unclassified government documents. Despite the fact that these documents are produced with taxpayer money, they have been deliberately kept from easy public accessibility despite repeated calls to “Free CRS Documents.” ...
Senator [Joe] Lieberman has long been an advocate for public access to CRS reports, and his newest letter urges Sen. Schumer as chair of the Committee on Rules and Administration to become an advocate as well. ...
Given that many recent CRS reports are now available on third-party websites, it only makes sense to make them available—online–from the government. As Sen. Lieberman notes, it is high time for an officially sanctioned, free way to distribute the reports to the people.
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.
