The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has launched an emergency appeal to its members to stop the Appropriations Committee's open-access plan. AAP President Pat Schroeder has written to the members of the AAP, members of the Appropriations Committee, the NIH Director (Elias Zerhouni) and the President's Science Advisor (John Marburger) urging them to oppose the plan. She is asking AAP members to phone and fax their members of Congress today.
PS: Congress goes on summer recess a week from tomorrow (Friday, 7/23). Because the time is tight and the AAP opposition is strong, many AAP members will undoubtedly send messages. I recommend that friends of OA send messages in support of the plan to the same people. Here's contact info for the members of the Appropriations Committee, Elias Zerhouni, and John Marburger. Of these, the most important are the members of the Appropriations Committee and your own representatives in Congress.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/15/2004 11:29:00 AM.
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.
