ALA Midwinter 2012: Head of RLUK Calls Research Works Act ‘Audacious in the Extreme’; LibraryJournal.com, 1/24/12

Michael Kelley, LibraryJournal.com; ALA Midwinter 2012: Head of RLUK Calls Research Works Act ‘Audacious in the Extreme’:

"David Prosser, the executive director of Research Libraries UK (RLUK), says the Research Works Act introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in December is “frankly ridiculous” and an attack on open access.

“It just seems quite bizarre that they should attempt to appropriate the intellectual capital of researchers that has been funded by the taxpayer and then call it a private research work,” Prosser told an audience at the American Library Association Midwinter meeting in Dallas on Saturday. “That strikes me as audacious in the extreme,” he said.

RLUK is a consortium of 32 of the largest research organizations in the UK and Ireland."