August issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

[Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>]

* Announcement [cross-posted] *

I just mailed the August issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter.  In
addition to the usual round-up of news from the past month, it takes a
close look at the proposals in both the US and the UK to mandate
open-access archiving for the results of taxpayer-funded research.  The US
proposal comes from the House Appropriations Committee and focuses on
NIH-funded research.  The UK proposal comes from the report of the House
of Commons Science and Technology Committee and would apply to all
taxpayer-funded research.

August issue
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-02-04.htm

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Peter Suber
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge
Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Editor, Open Access News blog
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/
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