[OAI-eprints] October issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

[Peter Suber]

* Announcement (cross-posted) *

I just mailed the October issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter.  This 
issue summarizes the state of OA legislation in the just-ended session of 
Congress and takes a close look at the indirect ways in which access might 
affect quality.  The Top Stories section takes a brief look at the 
university administrators supporting and opposing FRPAA, the continued 
expansion of the hybrid journal model, an NIH-publisher agreement that 
hurts researchers, a new policy at the NEH (not NIH) to favor OA projects, 
and a statement by a Vice President of the Association of American 
Publishers that it's in the national interest to limit access to 
publicly-funded research to those who can afford to pay.

October issue
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-06.htm

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	Peter



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