This evening the House of Representatives passed an omnibus spending bill containing language requiring the NIH to adopt an OA mandate. The Senate passed the bill on Tuesday.
Because it cuts spending to the levels President Bush requested, and gives him $70 billion for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, he is expected to sign it.
The OA mandate for the NIH isn't law yet, but it's very, very close. Watch this space.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/19/2007 11:45:00 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.
