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This Declaration was developed by a group of individuals from within academic and scholarly communication spheres who are alarmed by emerging acts of censorship by the U.S. government. The censorship focuses, so far, on:

• lists of words within federally funded research proposals and publications that are either now forbidden or flagged,

• restrictions limiting who federally funded researchers are allowed to co-author research papers with,

• eliminating the inclusion of information and data regarding certain topics from federal publications, and

• removing long-established data and information from federal agency websites.

We anticipate that the censorship activities of the U.S. government will continue to expand during this administration.