David Wiley is announcing that the full text of the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 is now available. Wiley notes that there is an exemption clause for “works that generate revenue or royalties for authors.” From the blog post:

If enacted, this would give the public (us!) free public access to the results of the research we’ve paid to have conducted through NIH, NSF, the Departments of Education, Agriculture, Labor, Energy, and more. Passage of this bill will fully tip the scales of knowledge creation to the side of almost unrestricted innovation. As we all know, technology is seldom the impediment – policy generally is.