A controversial bill in the California Assembly would require public schools to use shorter textbooks (200 pp. max) with appendices of URLs pointing to additional material. The bill has just been approved by the House and moves to the Senate. For details, see Jim Sanders' story from the May 26 Sacramento Bee. (Thanks to LIS News.)
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.
