*The Issa-Maloney statement coincided Monday with the announcement by
Elsevier, the Amsterdam-based publisher of about 2,000 scientific
journals and a leading backer of the Research Works Act, that it was
withdrawing its backing for the bill, “although we continue to oppose
government mandates in this area.” More than 5,700 researchers had
joined a boycott of Elsevier, in part for its support of the bill.*
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