On June 9, the US Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI) publicly released its Recommended Policies and Guidelines for Federal Public Websites and submitted them to the OMB for approval. The ICGI does not recommend open access where it is not already required by law. But it does recommend (pp. 35-36) that government web sites "comply with necessary policies and standards to implement the E-Government Act of 2002, Section 207(e), Public Access to Electronic Information, which will be issued by December 2005." (PS: The E-Government Act of 2002 does require open access in many areas where it was not previously required. One front to watch is the development of regulations to implement the act. Another is the appropriation of funds to implement it.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/16/2004 10:17:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
