I just received this month’s SPARC Open Access Newsletter in my inbox. It contains a hefty and thorough look at November’s election and the effects of it on public access initiatives that are underway, such as FRPPA (the bill that would extend the NIH Public Access Policy to 10 other funding agences). Public access to federally [...]
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We’re still waiting for the results of yesterday’s gubernatorial election in our fair state, but so far we have good news for libraries. All ballot measures for libraries in Oregon have passed! Residents of Damascus voted to gain access to Clackamas County Libraries, Multnomah County voters created a library district for Multhomah County Library, and [...]
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I sure can! Newspapers have elections and voter guides on their web sites (the Oregonian’s is here), television ads are being run, and politicalese can be heard on the bus, in coffee shops, and on the radio. There are ballot measures up in November that affect libraries: Damascus Measure 3-367, would give residents of Damascus [...]
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Just the other day the Librarian of Congress announced the rules for exemption to DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) regarding circumventing access-control technologies. And guess what! They’re more permissive than before! Today I have designated six classes of works. Persons who circumvent access controls in order to engage in noninfringing uses of works in these [...]
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Next Thursday, July 29th, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National Archives will hold a hearing on public access to federally funded research. You may remember that last winter the Office of Science and Technology Policy requested public input on the expansion of public access policies, [...]
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Last week at ALA’s 2010 Annual Conference, I had the pleasure of participating in Library Advocacy Day. On Tuesday, June 29th, librarians from all over the country gathered to show legislators the importance of funding libraries, and pointed to key issues facing libraries today. At 11am a Rally in Washington DC’s Upper Senate Park commenced. [...]
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To follow up on the post I made earlier this week, ACTA’s (Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement) text was released yesterday. There’s already a lot of commentary out there on the web. Consensus seems to be that not much has changed. For a good portal to find some of the interesting comments, you might use Michael Geist’s [...]
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Over at the LibraryLaw Blog is a post entitled: Will ACTA end the purchase of foreign titles by libraries? If you haven’t been following ACTA and you’re a foreign language librarian you might take heed! ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is essentially a meeting that was top secret and aims to draft an agreement between countries, [...]
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FRPAA (no, it’s not a new word for a zlobber) stands for Federal Research Public Access Act (HR5037), which was introduced in the House of Representatives earlier this week. The bill essentially states that eleven federal funding agencies would be required to provide the public with free online access to research manuscripts, stemming from work [...]
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It’s been a while since I’ve been able to provide updates from the policy and legislative side of things. A few interesting things have come up in the past month or so that you might find of interest. Oregon Legislative Update The Oregon Legislature ended its session in February. Among the accomplishments cited in a [...]
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