In his first year of office, George Bush issued an executive order allowing former presidents to block the public release of their papers. See our past posts on that order and the opposition it generated.
The first act passed by the House of Representatives in the first post-Bush session of Congress is the repeal of Bush's executive order. (Thanks to FGI.) If the Senate can pass its own version, Obama has promised the sign the bill.
PS: It's real. Change is coming.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/11/2009 01:00:00 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.
