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</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I just mailed the March issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at the new bill before Congress, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act, and the new directive from the Obama administration, which both require the largest federal research-funding agencies to adopt open-access mandates. </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">March 2013 issue</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-13.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-13.htm</a></font></div>
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</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">The current and back issues are all open access, of course.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm</a></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Peter</font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Peter Suber</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Senior Researcher, SPARC</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Director, Harvard Open Access Project</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge</font></div>
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