I am reproducing below a mail I received from Mr.Subbiah Arunachalam, which may be of interest to many of you. He has very kindly given the source as well, which is Peter Suber's article, "OA for CRS Reports" from "Open Access News". Some hot topics like "US Casualties in Iraq", "Causes of the Financial Crisis", "The Federal Medical Assistance Percentage in Medicaid" etc find a place in these reports:
"Congressional reports commissioned by the United States Congress and held till now as quasi-secret documents are now freely available thanks to Wikileaks. As of today nearly 6.800 reports running to more than 127.000 pages (and valued at nearly a billion dollars) are available to the public. Active contributors to this project include the Federation of American Scientists, the National Council for Science and the Environment and the Thurgood Marshall law Library of the University of Maryland.
It is only fair in a democracy that all reports generated using public funds are made available to the public."
"Congressional reports commissioned by the United States Congress and held till now as quasi-secret documents are now freely available thanks to Wikileaks. As of today nearly 6.800 reports running to more than 127.000 pages (and valued at nearly a billion dollars) are available to the public. Active contributors to this project include the Federation of American Scientists, the National Council for Science and the Environment and the Thurgood Marshall law Library of the University of Maryland.
It is only fair in a democracy that all reports generated using public funds are made available to the public."
Grateful thanks to Mr.Subbiah Arunachalam and Mr.Peter Suber, Open Access News.
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