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Information Today October 29, 2007 |
Legislative Update on NIH Public Access Policy Under a mandatory policy, NIH-funded researchers will be required to deposit copies of eligible manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine's online database, PubMed Central. |
Information Today August 27, 2007 |
Scholarly Publishers Launch PRISM Coalition The Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine (PRISM) is a coalition launched to alert Congress to the unintended consequences of government interference in scientific and scholarly publishing. |
Geotimes August 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Open Access Advancing One year after the NIH began to encourage researchers to make their findings freely available online, two U.S. senators introduced a new bill to Congress that proposes to both toughen and expand that open-access policy to include most federally funded research. |
Chemistry World January 22, 2008 Rebecca Trager |
NIH Battles Publishers Over Open Access The NIH has published controversial new rules that is sparking a showdown with publishers, including the American Chemical Society. |
Information Today May 8, 2006 Robin Peek |
The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 would require that agencies with research budgets of more than $100 million enact policy to ensure that articles generated through research funded by that agency are made available online within 6 months of publication. |
Geotimes November 2004 |
Open Access: Open Debate? Imagine any U.S. citizen having free and open access to research funded with tax dollars. That possibility could be closer to reality than ever before, but Congress must first address some important concerns |
Information Today May 6, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
Bill Introduced for Open Access to Federally Funded Research--FRPAA Revisited The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) will extend the existing open access mandate for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) across all of the major funding agencies in the U.S. federal government. |
Information Today September 13, 2004 Barbara Quint |
NIH Requires Open Access for Its Funded Medical Research With the NIH's decision, the fast-paced open access movement has picked up even more momentum. |
Information Today September 22, 2008 Robin Peek |
Fair Copyright in Research Works Act Challenges Federal Funding Some publishers are fighting the national Institutes of Health legislation that requires federally funded research to be made available through PubMed Central. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
Information Today January 17, 2012 Robin Peek |
Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. |
Chemistry World March 2, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
Information Today September 11, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest EBSCO Announces Partners for Journal Access... More Support for Federal Research Public Access Act... Evidence Matters Adds New Disease Modules... |
Information Today February 25, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
U.S. Takes Huge Step Forward in Opening Access to Publicly Funded Research During a flurry of announcements over the past 2 weeks, the world has watched as two major developments were launched from the U.S. federal government that will open access to articles produced as a result of grant funding from key U.S. agencies. |
Searcher December 2004 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Only Libraries, Only Librarians If Congress were to wave its magic wand and mandate open access across the federal research effort, it could accelerate the open access movement overnight. But are we ready? |
Chemistry World July 1, 2008 Rebecca Trager |
US research agencies get extra millions The US research community has won an extra $400 million for four science agencies, after successfully arguing that the nation's scientific enterprise is in a state of emergency. |
Information Today February 23, 2009 |
Library Associations Oppose Repealing Public Access Bill, Urge Action The library groups say that the bill would amend the U.S. Copyright Code, prohibiting federal agencies from requiring, as a condition of funding agreements, public access to the products of the research they fund. |
Chemistry World November 17, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
Nobel laureates appeal for open access In an open letter to United States lawmakers, 41 Nobel laureates endorse the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 for open access publishing |
Chemistry World March 6, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US health agencies expands open access policy The US Department of Health and Human Services has released a plan to expand how its agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, make research results freely available to scientists and the public. |
Information Today May 20, 2002 Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Strengthens Research Library Connections BioMed Central, the innovative commercial venture that offers open access to peer-reviewed biological and medical research, continues to expand its connections to research libraries. |
Information Today October 2004 Barbara Quint |
Up Front with Barbara Quint: Future of the NIH Open Access Policy Basically, the NIH, funder of at least a quarter of the world's best medical research, will mandate that all grantees and contractors submit electronic copies of finished manuscripts for full-text release through PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's popular medical research site. |
Chemistry World January 7, 2008 Rebecca Trager |
US Science Budget Fails to Deliver Although the 2008 budget has proved disappointing to the US science community, a light is on the horizon. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today May 23, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
Dialogue Over Public Access to Scholarly Publications Continues in the U.S. The conversation surrounding OA and public access today is vastly different from 5 years ago when the NIH policy was passed. The conversation in general has shifted from whether OA is a good thing to how to best implement it |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
Information Today July 26, 2004 Richard Poynder |
British Politicians Call on U.K. Government to Support Open Access Following 7 months of deliberation, the U.K. House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee has concluded that the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
U.K. Parliamentary Committee Holds Hearings on Scientific Publishing On March 1 and 8, the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee held the first two days of hearings as part of its inquiry into the pricing and availability of scientific publications and possible government support for open access publishing. |
Information Today March 17, 2015 Richard Huffine |
Distinctions Emerge in U.S. Government Plans for Expanding Access to Research Research funded by the U.S. government is finally going to be available for anyone to read and cite, based on plans laid out by the agencies that administer the funding |
Geotimes August 2004 Sherwood Boehlert |
Making an Impact on the Hill At a time of increased spending on defense and homeland security, the prospects for a significant increase in the National Science Foundation budget are dim. |
Information Today April 2004 Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Chemistry World October 15, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
Quotas proposed to back younger US researchers A US politician's plans to introduce quotas to ensure that the National Institutes of Health's grants go to younger researchers is receiving opposition from somewhat surprising quarters -- science advocacy groups. |
Information Today October 13, 2009 |
SPARC Reviews Income Models for Open Access Publishing The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open access publishers in a new guide, Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice. |
Information Today February 13, 2012 Robin Peek |
The Cost of Knowledge Versus Elsevier: 5,600 Signatures and Growing Timothy Gowers, a Cambridge mathematician and winner of the coveted Fields medal in mathematics, began The Cost of Knowledge website petition to publicize his own personal boycott of Elsevier, thus encouraging others to do the same. |
D-Lib September 2004 Bonita Wilson |
Recommended Reading For the D-Lib audience: US Congressional Budget Office report, Copyright Issues in Digital Media... UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report, Scientific Publications: Free for All?... National Institutes of Health (NIH) publication Notice: Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information... |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Information Today November 2004 Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs? |
Information Today June 16, 2015 |
NIH Plans for the Future of the National Library of Medicine The National Institutes of Health's director, Francis S. Collins, approved the proposed strategic plan for the National Library of Medicine. |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Chemistry World December 24, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US research agencies finally get their new budgets The US fiscal year 2016 appropriations, signed by President Obama on 18 December, provide $148.6 billion for federal research and development, an increase of 8.1% above current levels |
Information Today March 22, 2012 |
Two Dozen Bipartisan Co-Sponsors Add Their Support to FRPAA Fresh on the heels of the well-attended Congressional briefing on the issue of public access to the results of taxpayer funded research on March 19, 2012, 24 new bipartisan co-sponsors have officially been added to the roster of supporters. |
Information Today March 2003 Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson |
The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever. |
Information Today January 2005 Richard Poynder |
Interview with Vitek Tracz: Essential for Science Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, the chairman of the London-based Current Science Group has become a powerful advocate for open access. |
Information Today March 7, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
Information Today March 2001 Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Chemistry World May 5, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US budget outlook concerns White House The spending plan for the fiscal year 2016 proposed by Republicans in Congress could harm America's scientific enterprise. |
Information Today November 15, 2004 Richard Poynder |
U.K. Government Rejects Call to Support Open Access In a move that has angered members of an influential cross-party committee of British politicians, the U.K. government has rejected their call to make all publicly funded scientific research in Britain freely available on the Web. |
Information Today March 2003 Dick Kaser |
The Scholarly Publishing Debate Will this debate between users, intermediaries and vendors, which has gone on now for nearly a generation, ever end? |
Information Today April 10, 2006 Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
D-Lib June 2003 Bonita Wilson |
Improving Access to STM Literature: The Need for Continuing Dialogue Digital technologies have transformed the processes involved in information creation, dissemination, and access. The potential exists for the results of STM research to be reported, accessed and used more rapidly than could ever have been imagined in the print-only days. |