NARA is revising its fees for reproduction of records and other materials in the custody of the Archivist of the United States....The fees are being changed to reflect current costs of providing the reproductions. This proposed rule will affect the public and Federal agencies....
NARA does not receive appropriated funds to provide copies of our records to the public....[US law] requires that, to the extent possible, NARA recover the actual cost of making copies of records....As a result of a cost study conducted in 2006, fees for copying records must increase to recover NARA's costs. This is the first proposed fee increase in almost seven years....
Public comments are due by April 27, 2007.
Comment. The reproduction fees only apply when NARA staffers have to copy paper or microfilm originals. Hence, you might think that digital records would be OA. But some are and some aren't. NARA is sometimes willing to let private for-profit companies do the digitizing and charge for access.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/27/2007 10:22:00 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.
