> Probably the biggest victory to date for the OA movement was a mandate > adopted by the U.S. NIH which stipulates that all the research funded by > the NIH (which amounts to approximately $29 billion annually) is now > made freely available through PubMed Central > (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/). Now the OA movement in the U.S. is > trying to extend this type of mandate to all federal research funding > agencies with budgets over $100 million. Likewise, there are projects > underway in other countries to advocate for similar policies, including > an open letter recently announced which targets UK funding councils > (http://tinyurl.com/64v9nvc). And finally, in addition to federal > research funding agencies, the OA movement also works with universities > to advocate for the adoption of institutional mandates which stipulate > that all research produced by those affiliated with a university or > faculty be made freely available (see OA policies adopted by several of > Harvard's Faculties http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/). > > So some progress, but much more to do! > > Melissa
This approach should be quite productive in the long run. "JSTOR is a not-for-profit service" to say nothing of most holders of substantial archives. Nevertheless the expenses of digitizing information and distributing it must be met. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
