Please don't forget to notify your Representative and Senators by end of business on Wednesday, September 24, the day after tomorrow. Congress adjourns on Friday and members have to hear from you before they leave town. Even if the Conyers bill doesn't move, the language may be attached to another bill that is moving.
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.