... Information sharing initiatives such as the National Institute of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy have begun to bear fruit, and it remains essential that libraries, in their role in providing access to information and research, participate in these policy conversations. In September 2008 we reported on SPARC Director Heather Joseph’s Congressional testimony on the importance of the Open Access policy. The legislative attack on the Public Access Policy has subsided, and the NIH Policy lives on, ensuring public access to the published results of NIH-funded research in PubMed Central. The American Library Association, SPARC and several other national and regional library, publishing, and advocacy organizations have been long-standing supporters of the NIH Open Access Policy. ...
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.
