Significant Open Access Developments at Home and Abroad
The two lead stories the August issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter describe two of the most significant open-access developments in our history. In addition to the usual round-up of news from the past month, it takes a close look at the proposals in both the US and the UK to mandate open-access archiving for the results of taxpayer-funded research. The US proposal comes from the House Appropriations Committee and focuses on NIH-funded research. The UK proposal comes from the report of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee and would apply to all taxpayer-funded research.
Read all about it: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-02-04.htm
More on the same topic:
British Parliamentary Panel Endorses Open Access to Scientific Literature (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 20, 2004) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/07/2004072002n.htm
NIH Research to be Open Access (The Scientist, July 29, 2004)
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040729/04/
Access All Areas: Scientific Publishing is Having to Change Rapidly to Respond Rapidly to Respond to Growing Pressure for Free Access to Published Research (The Economist, Aug. 5, 2004)
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3061258
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