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USACM promotes a clear and concise policy framework for controlling
access to research and information. As our nation takes additional
steps to enhance homeland security, USACM and others in the research
community have become increasingly concerned with government efforts
that would create new controls or restrictions on access to research
and information. Actions of concern include: creating new categories
of classification; requiring pre-publication review of research
results; and enacting further restrictions on foreign-born researchers
that would limit participation in government research contracts
and grants. In communications with policymakers, USACM has concluded
that erecting unworkable barriers to research could threaten the
strength of our universities and research enterprise, damage our
nation's ability to create and disseminate knowledge, and undermine
the education of our future scientific leaders.
USACM Activities
USACM sent a letter to White House Office of Science and Technology
Director regarding the need to protect the integrity and the open
access to scientific information. March 23, 2003
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