The Committee for Economic Development is releasing a new report, The Future of Public Access to Taxpayer-Funded Research, which analyzes the effects of government policies that open federally funded research to the public. At present, federal law requires the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to have the results of all NIH-funded research to be made publicly available in electronic form no later than 12 months after their "publication" in a journal.. A debate over whether to extend this policy to all federally funded research or to overturn it has highlighted the differences between large numbers of individuals and organizations in the science and scientific publishing communities. This report finds that the net benefits of increased public access to federally funded research on the long-term development and dissemination of high-quality scientific, technical, and medical research and on innovation and economic growth far outweigh any negative impact on traditional subscription supported publishers who now serve as the "gateway" to most peer-reviewed journal articles. The author of the report, Digital Economy expert Elliot Maxwell will present the findings and recommendations of the report and then take part in a question-and-answer session.

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Elliot E. Maxwell advises public and private sector clients on strategic issues involving the intersection of business, technology, and public policy in the Internet and E-commerce domains. He is a Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the eBusiness Research Center of the Pennsylvania State University. He also advises the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, EPCglobal/GS1, and the Committee for Economic Development.

From 1998 until 2001, Maxwell served as Special Advisor for the Digital Economy to U.S. Secretary of Commerce William Daley and U. S. Secretary of Commerce Norm Mineta. In this position he was the principal advisor to the Secretary on the Internet and E-commerce. He coordinated the Commerce Department's efforts to establish a legal framework for electronic commerce, ensure privacy, protect intellectual property, increase Internet security, encourage broadband deployment, expand Internet participation, and analyze the impact of electronic commerce on all aspects of the economy. He was deeply involved in the development of e-government activities and was a founding member of the Federal Interagency Working Group on Electronic Commerce.

After leaving the federal government he was Senior Fellow for the Digital Economy and Director of the Internet Policy Project for the Aspen Institute's Communications and Society Program. Previously, Maxwell worked for a number of years as a consultant and as Assistant Vice President for Corporate Strategy at Pacific Telesis Group where he combined business, technology, and public policy planning. He served at the Federal Communications Commission as Special Assistant to the Chairman, Deputy Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy, and Deputy Chief of the Office of Science and Technology. Maxwell also worked for the U.S. Senate as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities.

Maxwell went to Brown, where he co-authored, with Ira Magaziner, the report which led to the introduction of the "New Curriculum," and Yale Law School, where he served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Law Journal. He has written and spoken widely on issues involving the Internet, electronic commerce, telecommunications, and technology policy. His most recent work, " Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education," was issued by the Committee for Economic Development (CED). The predecessors of that work, "Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care," "Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness," and "Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property" were also published by CED. The RFID Journal recently published his views on "Rethinking Privacy."

In 2005, Maxwell presented "Some Reflections on the Future: Dipping a Toe in the Datastream" to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. That same year, the Economic Policy Institute published his report, "A New Future for Telecommunications Policy: Learning from Past Mistakes." His study of Internet Governance "Rethinking Boundaries in Cyberspace," written with Erez Kalir, was published by the Aspen Institute in 2002.

Program

12:00 p.m. Registration, lunch buffet
12:15 p.m. Welcome
12:20 p.m. Discussion
     Elliot E. Maxwell, Digital Economy Expert and author of The Future of Public Access to Taxpayer-Funded Research
1:15 p.m.  Question-and-answer session
1:45 p.m.  Adjournment

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