Alliance for Taxpayer Access has links to the three websites where OA supporters are urged to press for extension of the expansion of the NIH OA policy to other US federal funding agencies: http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/action_access/11-0325.shtml
(I've just posted the text below to all three websites. To help help OA grow sooner rather than later, please do post your own support too.) -------- I strongly urge extending the NIH Public Access Policy to all federal funding agencies (as proposed in the FRPAA and OSTP). I also suggest updating the policy so that it encourages and facilitates the adoption and implementation of complementary public access policies by universities and research institutions by specifying that the public access requirement can be fulfilled by depositing locally, in the fundee's own institutional open access repository. Not all research is federally funded, but virtually all federal fundees are institutionally affiliated, and most universities and research institutions already have ,a href="http://roar.eprints.org";>institutional open access repositories. An increasing number of universities and research institutions are also contemplating adopting an open access policy (as Harvard, MIT, and over a hundred other universities worldwide have done). The goal is global open access to research findings, and it is especially important now that policies should be designed to collaborate and reinforce one another, rather than to compete. It should only be necessary for an author to deposit once, and the simplest and most natural solution is to deposit institutionally and then harvest centrally (and automatically) to PubMed Central and any other desired central search site. See: "How to Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates" http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html and postings on OSTP & FRPAA http://bit.ly/ostp-frpaa Stevan Harnad EnablingOpenScholarship http://www.openscholarship.org/
