NY State Senate Bill 2009-S2789

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2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:: Appropriations
Laws Affected:: Amd §100, add Art 17 §§350 - 354, Ec Dev L

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the academic research information access act to provide public and private academic and research libraries of New York access to information resources at institutions of higher education and within the entrepreneurial community; makes appropriation of fifteen million dollars therefor.

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S2789

 TITLE OF BILL :
An act to amend the economic development law, in relation to
establishing the academic research information access act, and making
an appropriation therefor


 PURPOSE OF THE BILL :
This bill establishes the Academic Research Information Access Act
(ARIA) to foster innovations and economic growth by broadening the
availability of high end information resources.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :
§ 1- Sets out the short title.

§ 2- Legislative findings. This bill creates an appropriation to allow
public and private academic research libraries to make their
collections accessible to the entrepreneurial community.  Currently
access is limited because of the high cost of licensing agreements and
restrictive contracts that inhibit collaboration.

§ 3- Amends section 100 of the Economic Development Law which sets out
the general powers of the Department to include promoting the broad
availability of information resources.

§ 4- Adds a new article 17 to the Economic Development Law entitled
Academic Research Information Access.

§350 - General. Establishes the academic research information access
(ARIA) program in the Department of Economic Development.

§351 - Information Resources. Requires the Department in conjunction
with SUNY and the NYS Board of Regents to establish contracts and
licenses for the provision of electronic resources (including
academic, professional and industry journals, reference handbooks and
manuals, research tracking tools, indexes and abstracts). The users of
these resources shall be: individuals operating primarily in the
fields of science, technology and medical research and development,
including researchers, scholars, faculty and students and member and
associate institutions of the New York State Higher Education
Initiative (NYSHEI); researchers; entrepreneurs; innovators existing
in business incubators aligned with a NYSHEI member; recipients of
grants from NYSTAR or Empire State Development; and small businesses
in approved empire zones.

§ 352 - Resource selection. Resources made available through this
program will be selected from recommendations made by an advisory
board of public and private library representatives.

§ 353 - Contractual Negotiations. Agreements funded by ARIA shall be
negotiated in compliance with state procurement contracting
procedures.

§ 354 - Administration - Gives the Department the Authority to
promulgate rules and regulations to implement this program.

§ 5- $15 million dollar appropriation to implement this program.

§ 6- Effective date.

 JUSTIFICATION :
To foster a knowledge-based, or innovation, economy in New York it is
essential to create an information infrastructure to support academic,
business and entrepreneurial research, discovery and growth.

The early twenty-first century has rightly been termed the
"information age." Scholarly information driven by new research is
generated at the fastest pace in history; and it has become a major,
if not the principal component of a knowledge-based economy. A 1993
U.S. Commerce Department report notes that two-thirds of American
workers are in information related jobs, and the rest are in
industries that are reliant on information. The report states plainly
that information fuels economic growth and creates jobs.

In an information infrastructure, access to academic research and
development information resources is critical. Researchers confirm
that access to high-end information resources leads to 87 percent more
success in research activities. This leads to more patents, more
licenses, and thus more jobs and economic strength.

In recent years, New York has made considerable investments in
promoting research and innovation as a stimulus to the economy.
Missing from past efforts has been broad statewide access to
electronic resources essential to research and economic development.
It is noteworthy that the most substantive progress in establishing
information infrastructure to support teaching, learning, research and
innovation occurs in places other than New York. Nearly half of all
other states have created some variety of a library-driven information
infrastructure.

Academic libraries in other states have been successful in obtaining
state government support of high-end research databases in scientific,
technical engineering, medical and financial fields of endeavor.
Through State contracts, individual academic libraries have benefited
from deep savings in the costs of these databases, enabling them to
invest those savings to extend their local database offerings to the
growing and emerging fields of study so important to their regional
economies. Additionally, only through state contracts can these
information resources by shared with small business interests, such as
those being cultivated in Empire Zones or various incubators.

Through a state supported program for research and development
information resources, college and university faculty are able to
contribute advanced research to industry and government. This
widespread access will fuel workforce development, economic expansion,
new enterprises, new inventions, new industries and new jobs.

 EXISTING LAW :
None.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :
2007-2008: A.9672/S.6741.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :
This bill contains an annual state appropriation of$15 million to
leverage over $60 million of information resources, according to
conservative estimates.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediately.

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2789

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 3, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  STACHOWSKI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to  establish-
  ing the academic research information access act, and making an appro-
  priation therefor

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
the "academic research information access act".
  S  2.  Legislative  findings.  The  public  and  private  academic and
research libraries of New York individually license research and  devel-
opment information resources. Access to such resources is vitally impor-
tant  to  the  furtherance  of  an innovation-based economy. The primary
obstacles limiting access to such information resources at  institutions
of  higher  education  and within the entrepreneurial community, are the
high cost of licensing agreements and restrictive contracts that inhibit
collaboration. The application of public funding  would  allow  expanded
offerings  of  information  resources  while  simultaneously  increasing
availability and access. Therefore, it is in the best interests  of  the
economic  development  and  higher  education interests of this state to
enact the academic research information access act.
  S 3. Subdivision 31 of section 100 of the economic development law, as
added by chapter 947 of the laws of 1968 and as  renumbered  by  chapter
437 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
  31.  to sponsor, foster and support research and to sponsor or conduct
studies relating to science oriented industry and applied  research  AND
TO  PROMOTE THE BROAD AVAILABILITY OF THE INFORMATION RESOURCES REQUIRED
FOR THE INNOVATION AND APPLICATION OF SCIENCE,  TECHNOLOGY  AND  MEDICAL
RESEARCH.
  S  4.  The economic development law is amended by adding a new article
17 to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08165-01-9

S. 2789                             2

                               ARTICLE 17
                  ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFORMATION ACCESS
SECTION 350. GENERAL.
        351. INFORMATION RESOURCES.
        352. RESOURCE SELECTION.
        353. CONTRACTUAL NEGOTIATIONS.
        354. ADMINISTRATION.
  S  350.  GENERAL.  THERE  IS  HEREBY  ESTABLISHED AN ACADEMIC RESEARCH
INFORMATION ACCESS (ARIA) PROGRAM TO BE ADMINISTERED BY  THE  DEPARTMENT
IN  ORDER TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH FOR THE
PURPOSE OF THE ECONOMIC ADVANCE OF THIS STATE. THE DEPARTMENT MAY  ENTER
INTO  AGREEMENTS  WITH PUBLIC AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO ESTAB-
LISH AND MAINTAIN THE PROGRAM, AS PROVIDED IN THIS ARTICLE.
  S 351. INFORMATION RESOURCES. THE DEPARTMENT, IN COOPERATION WITH  THE
STATE  UNIVERSITY  OF  NEW YORK AND THE NEW YORK STATE BOARD OF REGENTS,
SHALL ESTABLISH CONTRACTS AND LICENSES FOR THE PROVISION OF  PROPRIETARY
ELECTRONIC  RESOURCES,  INCLUDING,  BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACADEMIC, PROFES-
SIONAL AND INDUSTRY JOURNALS, REFERENCE HANDBOOKS AND MANUALS,  RESEARCH
TRACKING  TOOLS, INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS. THE BENEFICIARIES OF SUCH INFOR-
MATION RESOURCES SHALL OPERATE PRIMARILY IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE, TECH-
NOLOGY AND MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT,  AND  INCLUDE  RESEARCHERS,
SCHOLARS,  FACULTY  AND STUDENTS AT MEMBER AND ASSOCIATE INSTITUTIONS OF
THE NEW YORK STATE HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE  (NYSHEI),  OTHER  INSTI-
TUTIONS  REGISTERED  BY THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF COLLEGE
AND UNIVERSITY EVALUATION (OCUE) AND RESEARCHERS,  ENTREPRENEURS,  OTHER
INNOVATORS  EXISTING  IN  BUSINESS INCUBATORS ALIGNED WITH NYSHEI MEMBER
AND ASSOCIATE INSTITUTIONS, RECIPIENTS OF GRANTS FROM THE OFFICES OF THE
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF  SCIENCE,  TECHNOLOGY  AND  ACADEMIC  RESEARCH,
EMPIRE STATE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, THE NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND BUSINESSES WITH FEWER THAN FIFTY EMPLOYEES
CURRENTLY SITUATED IN APPROVED EMPIRE ZONES.
  S  352.  RESOURCE  SELECTION.  THE DEPARTMENT SHALL CREATE AN ADVISORY
BOARD REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INTERESTS OF THE LIBRARIES FROM  THE  SMALL,
MEDIUM  AND LARGE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN
NEW YORK STATE AND  THE  SMALL  BUSINESS  COMMUNITIES  FOR  THE  EXPRESS
PURPOSE  OF  MAKING  REGULAR RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT REGARDING
THE SELECTION  OF  INFORMATION  RESOURCES  DESCRIBED  IN  SECTION  THREE
HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF THIS ARTICLE.
  S  353.  CONTRACTUAL  NEGOTIATIONS. AGREEMENTS FUNDED BY ARIA SHALL BE
NEGOTIATED BY A STANDING PUBLIC ENTITY THAT COMPLIES WITH STATE PROCURE-
MENT CONTRACTING PROCEDURES AND SELECTED BY THE ADVISORY BOARD  PURSUANT
TO  A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING AMONG NYSHEI, NYLINK, AND THE NEW YORK
STATE LIBRARY AND OTHER SUCH STANDING PUBLIC ENTITIES AS NECESSARY.
  S 354. ADMINISTRATION. OTHER SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS  DEEMED  NECES-
SARY  FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF THE INTENT OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE PROMUL-
GATED BY DEPARTMENT RULES AND REGULATIONS.
  S 5. The sum of fifteen million  dollars  ($15,000,000),  or  so  much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of
economic  development  out  of  any  moneys in the state treasury in the
general fund to the credit of the general fund, not otherwise  appropri-
ated,  and  made  immediately available, for the purpose of carrying out
the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable  on  the  audit
and  warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the
commissioner of economic development in the manner prescribed by law.
  S 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Senate Bill S2789

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Archive: Last Bill Status - Stricken

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Details

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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William T. Stachowski

Archive: Last Bill Status - Stricken

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Details

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2789 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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