The ACRL has issued a press release announcing that it has joined the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. Excerpt: "ACRL has sent letters to Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and to members of Congress encouraging them to ensure that peer-reviewed articles on taxpayer-funded research at NIH become fully accessible. The letter to Dr. Zerhouni is available online."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/28/2004 09:00:00 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.
