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 […]
NewsBreaks for Monday, March 29, 2010 (from Infomation Today) Summary Judgment Motions Filed in Georgia State Copyright Infringement Lawsuit By George H. Pike The increasingly testy copyright infringement lawsuit between Cambridge University Press and other publishers and Georgia State University (GSU) over electronic course materials may be coming to a climax. Both sides have recently […]
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 […]
Do you work with scholarly publishing? Have you been following the Obama administration’s Open Government plan? Do you know much about the NIH Public Access Policy? Do you work with faculty members at your institution who receive federal funding? Read on to learn more about something exciting that’s happening right now. As a bit of […]
Good news for everyone all around, Congress passed funding for LSTA. The funding is slightly increased from last year. Read more details over at the ALA Washington Office’s District Dispatch post. And for good measure, check out the Oregon State Library’s list of funded programs for 2009. Since the federal funding passed, that means we […]
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