The latest intelligence is that the Senate will vote on the bill to mandate OA at the NIH sometime during the week of October 15-19. That gives us more time to ask our Senators to support the bill.
I've collected all the info you need right here. If you haven't already contacted your Senators, please do. And please spread the word to others. Messages should arrive before the end of business on Friday, October 12, to be sure that Senators see them in time. That's 10 days.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/02/2007 07:58:00 PM.
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.
