UNITED STATES

CALL TO ACTION: Support the Federal Research Public Access Act (H.R. 4004, S. 2096)
For background information, see our full call to action.

• Write your legislators, via the Right to Research Action Center
  A letter of support is the best way to influence your legislators to support and co-sponsor FRPAA if they haven't already, or if they have, a letter thanking them for their leadership will go a long way in getting them to push FRPAA aggressively. Through our action center, you can send letters to your legislators directly using pre-made templates that you can add to and customize.
  [NOTE: the above link will take you to the Alliance for Taxpayer Access site, which hosts the Right to Research Coalition's legislative action center]

• Thank FRPAA's introducing co-sponsors
  Even if you're not in their districts, it's important to thank FRPAA's introducing sponsors to let them know there is a large community of support behind the bill.

• Visit your legislators' local offices
  Taking the time for an in-person visit to the office of one of your legislators is an especially effective was to demonstrate your support for FRPAA, particularly if you can organize a group of students from your campus or your student organization to join you.

CALL TO ACTION: Oppose H.R. 3699, a new bill to block public access to publicly funded research
For background, see our blog post on this call to action.

We strongly encourage students to contact Representatives Issa and Maloney as well as other members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to express their concern over the Research Works Act.  Students should also contact their individual representatives to voice their opposition for the Research Works Act and support for NIH-style public access policies. To support you, draft letter text is available here.

• Representative Issa
  @DarrellIssa
  http://issa.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=597&Itemid=73
  Fax: (202) 225-3303

• Representative Maloney 
  @RepMaloney 
  https://maloney.house.gov/contact-me/email-me (Using zip code 10128-3679)
  Fax: (202) 225-4709

• Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee – especially if you’re a constituent
  http://1.usa.gov/zDqnne 

•  Your representative – through the ATA Action Center: COMING SOON

Please send a copy of your letters to nick [at] arl [dot] org, so we can track responses and highlight your letters in our work with these offices.
 

Outside the United States

At this time, the Coalition does not have any active action alerts on legislation outside of the United States.  If you know of legislation we should be advocating for, send a tip to nick [at] arl [dot] org.