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A First Look At The Digital Public Library Of America

Lincoln Mullen | The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 23, 2013

Last Thursday at noon the Digital Public Library of America launched its website. The opening festivities, which had been booked solid with a long wait list for weeks, were canceled, since the venue at the main branch of the Boston Public Library was adjacent to the site of the bombing in Boston earlier that week. But the DPLA, which is a website and not a location, went ahead with the launch of the public service anyway. Read More »

Academic Publishers Have Become The Enemies Of Science

Mike Taylor | The Guardian | January 16, 2012

The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls Read More »

Argentina Takes Steps Towards Open Access Law

Cecilia Rosen | SciDev.Net | June 7, 2012

Argentina is a step closer to becoming the first country to pass legislation to make all publicly funded research available in open access repositories. Read More »

Big Push For Open Access

Ry Rivard | Inside Higher Ed | February 25, 2013

New taxpayer-funded research must be made available to the public free of charge within a year of its publication, the Obama administration said Friday. Read More »

Biss Bill Seeks To Break Academic Journal Cartel

Bill Smith | Evanston Now | April 25, 2013

State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) wants Illinois’ state universities to join the hundreds of institutions worldwide that have “open access” policies to make taxpayer-funded research available to the public at no cost. Read More »

California Open Access Legislation Clears Latest Hurdle

David Knutson | PLOS Blogs | May 30, 2013

The House Assembly today passed the California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act (AB 609). Read More »

Canada May Be Nearing The Open Access "Tipping Point"

Michael Geist | Michael Geist | October 24, 2013

[...] While it has captured limited attention outside of educational circles, the Internet has facilitated the emergence of open access publishing of research, transforming the multi-billion dollar academic publishing industry and making millions of articles freely accessible to a global audience. Read More »

Commentary: IT Is Critical To Preventing Fraud And Waste In Austere Times

Ramani Vaidyanathan | Nextgov | September 14, 2012

In the face of intense and growing budget pressures, taxpayers, legislators, and commentators of all political stripes want greater transparency and accountability in government spending. Read More »

Continua Developer Tools Now Available

Press Release | Continua Health Alliance | June 4, 2013

Continua Health Alliance today announced it has published four primary components on Open Health Tools, the Open Source clearinghouse for health IT projects. Continua has also created a Developer Resources area on its website to promote public access... Read More »

Could California Bill Mandate Open Access To Research?

Bryan Behrenshausen | OpenSource.com | May 30, 2013

Champions of open access to publicly funded academic research had something to celebrate last week... Read More »

FASTR Aims To Speed Open Access To Government-Funded Research

Meredith Schwartz | Library Journal | February 21, 2013

[...] If passed, FASTR would require government agencies with annual extramural research expenditures of more than $100 million make electronic manuscripts of peer-reviewed journal articles based on their research freely available on the Internet within six months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Read More »

For Patents, Against Open Access: The Sad State Of University Leadership

Michael Eisen | It Is NOT Junk | February 15, 2013

Quick. Name a leader of a major research university who has taken a courageous stand on any important issue in the last decade. I know they’re out there. They must be. But I can’t think of one. Instead, I’m left dumfounded reading this amicus brief filed in a case – Bowman v. Monsanto – about to be heard by the US Supreme Court. Read More »

Free Papers Have Reached A Tipping Point, Study Claims

Jocelyn Kaiser | Science | August 20, 2013

Efforts to give the public free access to peer-reviewed papers have reached a milestone: One-half of all papers are now freely available within a year or two of publication, concludes a study funded by the European Commission and released today. [...] Read More »

Free Papers Have Reached A Tipping Point, Study Claims

Jocelyn Kaiser | Science | August 20, 2013

Efforts to give the public free access to peer-reviewed papers have reached a milestone: One-half of all papers are now freely available within a year or two of publication, concludes a study funded by the European Commission and released today. [...] Read More »

Funders Punish Open-Access Dodgers

Richard Van Noorden | Nature | April 9, 2014

For years, two of the world’s largest research funders — the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom — have issued a steady stream of incentives to coax academics to abide by their open-access policies.  Now they are done with just dangling carrots. Both institutions are bringing out the sticks: cautiously and discreetly cracking down on researchers who do not make their papers publicly available.

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