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From ALA's District Dispatch:

The House Committee on Appropriations will consider the fiscal year (FY) 2008 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill on July 11. If you have a Representative on the House Appropriations Committee, please call, email or fax them to support the inclusion of language that would require National Institutes of Health (NIH) investigators to deposit their "final peer-reviewed manuscript upon acceptance be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication." The Senate Appropriations Committee passed the FY 2008 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill with this language in June

The Association of American Publishers is asking members of the Committee to eliminate and/or change this language, so it is critically important that Representatives hear from those who support the change in the NIH public access policy.

A list of members of the House Committee on Appropriations can be found on the Committee's website, and talking points courtesy of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) are included below.