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Read this thread from the beginning.

 

Facts are an important element of any decision-making process. When we as a society make decisions that affect our future, facts, and conversation or argument about what they mean, is a critical part of those decisions.

 

But facts today are not free. Everyone deserves access to the facts that are necessary to make decisions that affect the future of our world.

 

Read more about open access.

 

Read an open letter to the U.S. Congress, signed by 26 Nobel Prize winners.

 

Join the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a diverse and growing alliance of organizations representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research.

 

Learn more about what you can do to promote open access.

 

Write your U.S. Representative to demand open access for publicly funded research.

 

Contact your U.S. Senator.

 

Physicist John Baez on What we can do about science journals.

 

Mathematician Rob Kirby on math journals

 

Vote to make open access to research a priority for the Obama administration.

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