May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

[Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>]

* Announcement (cross-posted) *

I just mailed the May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. 
This issue takes a close look at Federal Research Public Access 
Act (FRPAA) just introduced in the US Senate by Senators John 
Cornyn and Joe Lieberman.  The FRPAA mandates OA for federally 
funded research and imposes a firm six month deadline.  The Top 
Stories section takes a brief look at the EC report calling for 
an OA mandate to publicly-funded research, the developing OA 
policy at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 
NIH-Director Elias Zerhouni's public admission that the NIH 
policy might need a mandate, two recent clues the RCUK thinking 
about OA, a new call for OA to biodiversity data, an 
"email-eprints" button for Eprints and DSpace archiving software, 
and the beta of Microsoft Live Academic Search.

May issue 
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-02-06.htm

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Peter