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FRPAA drags; life science foundations not waiting

Tweet I want to compliment the analysis done by Declan Butler in the Nature news blog about the open access shot heard round the world. I’m referring to the announcement that three top-shelf life science foundations– the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Wellcome Trust (WT), and the Max Planck Society (MPS)– are intending to [...]

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Wed, June 29 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Who pays for open access? A video primer from CUL

Tweet The Big Think site brought this video to my attention.  As this is a teaching blog, I think it is worth watching, if you are unfamiliar with this notion of who pays and what are the most sustainable models of open access.   Panelists: Mike Rossner, Executive Director of the Rockefeller University Press; Ivy Anderson, [...]

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Tue, August 31 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Do taxpayers pay for private sector peer-reviewed journal articles?

Tweet On July 29th, Allan Adler, Vice President of government and legal affairs at the Association of American Publishers (AAP), told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee that FRPAA would seriously threaten the scholarly publishing industry: “Publishers strongly believe that American taxpayers are entitled to the research [...]

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Fri, August 13 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment

We hold these truths self-evident: the polarity of expanding access to funded scientific research

Tweet On July 29th, Allan Adler, Vice President of government and legal affairs at the Association of American Publishers (AAP), told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee that FRPAA would seriously threaten the scholarly publishing industry: “Publishers strongly believe that American taxpayers are entitled to the research [...]

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Fri, August 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

July 27th hearing on FRPAA: Who opposes public access to publicly funded research?

Tweet From the ARL SPARC press release: Washington, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National Archives announced it will hold a hearing on the issue of public access to federally funded research on Thursday, July 29. The hearing will provide an [...]

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Tue, July 20 2010 » Uncategorized » 4 Comments

ASM OA journal mBio challenges OA microbiology champion, PLoS Pathogens

Tweet The American Society for Microbiology(ASM) is one of the most distinguished and successful biomedical science publishers.  ASM is already a full participant in PubMed Central for all of its non-open journals, offering free access at six months after publication, in effect already complying with the six month intent of the FRPAA legislative proposal. Now [...]

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Sun, May 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

AACR aggressively raises public donations…while opposing FRPAA and accellerated public access

Tweet The mission statement of the AACR and its Foundation for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer lays out a compelling rationale for individual and corporate support of their efforts: Prevent and cure cancer through research, education, communication and collaboration Foster cancer research and related biomedical science Accelerate the dissemination of new research findings among scientists [...]

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Tue, May 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

2010 Open Access week new twist: Ning Collaboration

Tweet The 4th annual open access week will take place October 18-24, 2010. In an effort to build a collaborative environment, the organizers at SPARC have enlisted the Ning social networking  software (note that Ning is announcing the elimination of free Ning networks on May 4th). When you register for access to the Open Access [...]

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Sun, May 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Margo Coletti: Educating our Researchers about FRPAA

Tweet After reading this message, I asked Margo if I could post it, and she said go for it. Dear Colleagues: The day H.R. 5037 (Federal Research Public Access Act of 2010 – FRPAA) was introduced, I happened to be sending an open access article to a headache support group.  The article was the result [...]

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Thu, April 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

FRPAA- Taxpayer Issue Gets a Soap Box

Tweet The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) satisfies the central demand of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access: Ensuring taxpayers have access to the results of research funded with tax dollars.  President Obama’s Office for Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) is attempting to collect genuine taxpayer comments through Thursday, January 7, 2010, addressing the following [...]

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Mon, January 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments