I just mailed the August issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue --my 100th-- takes a close look at 10 lessons drawn from five major funder OA policies or proposals (NIH, Wellcome Trust, RCUK, CURES, and FRPAA). The Top Stories section takes a brief look at the OA practices of the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance, the OA-oriented Rice University Press and MediaCommons, the new Gates Foundation data-sharing requirement, the provost letter in support of FRPAA, and continuing news and comment on the new RCUK policy.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/02/2006 12:45:00 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.
