In the beginning of May I had the opportunity to visit Washington, DC and participate in National Library Legislative Day (NLLD). What a great experience, not only to visit the warmth of the sun, but also to make legislative office visits and tell staff what matters to us and to library users in Oregon. The title […]
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, […]
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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