Sunday, October 23, 2016

Taxpayer funded research should be accessible for the public for free - at EveryCRSReport.com


A lot of taxpayers' money is given out in various grants, for various types of research.

If you pay for something, you own it.

Right?

Wrong.  Many times, the government, or those third parties who do research based on government-funded grants, still either claim copyrights to the work, or, if research was made for the government, the government denies access to results of research or tries to charge people seeking access a fee for such access.

A group of individuals with support of undisclosed "Republican and a Democrat member of Congress" claims to have made federal taxpayer-funded research public

Publications on EveryCRSReport.com are reportedly split into 31 categories, with RSS feed available on them, so that people who want to follow Congressional research of a certain topic have an ability to follow reports on that research.

Whether all of such research was made public, and whether it any special interests are involved in such publication, I do not know.

Yet, it may prove a valuable information resource to the public, and such a publication is a yet another step towards transparency of the government.

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