Provosts' letter in support of FRPAA

[Mark Sandler <sandler@umich.edu>]

Inside Hgher Education ran a story today about an open letter 
signed by 25 Provosts from around the country in support of FRPAA 
(Federal Research Publlic Access Act).  The idea for this came 
out of the CIC (Committee on Insitutional Cooperation), was 
supported by CDL (California Digital Library), and then pushed 
out more broadly for signatures.  The letter itself was very 
nicely drafted for the provosts by Maria Bonn of the University 
of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Offie and John Ober of CDL's 
Office of Scholalry Communication.

The letter with signers can be found at:
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/groups/CICMembers/archive/documents/
FRPAAletterFinal7-24-06.doc
The Inside Higher Education story can be found at:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/07/28/provosts

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Mark Sandler
Director, Center for Library Initiatives
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
1819 South Neil, Suite D Champaign, IL 61820-7271
Phone: 734 764-1444 Fax: 734 764-6849
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The CIC is a consortium of 12 research universities: University 
of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, 
University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State 
University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, 
Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue 
University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

With campuses in 8 states, CIC universities enroll more than
300,000 undergraduates and 76,000 graduate students, and
employ some 33,000 full-time faculty and 139,000 full-time
staff.