December issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

[Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>]

* Announcement (cross-posted) *

I just mailed the December issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. 
This issue takes a close look at the recent Working Group recommendation 
to strengthen the NIH public-access policy and the OA news coming out of 
the Tunis phase of WSIS.  It also asks how the expanding web is like the 
expanding universe and how search engines and open access are like the 
gravity that may, or may not, hold it all together.  The Top Stories 
section takes a brief look at milestones at several OA resources, a 
worldwide wave of new repository launches, new search developments that 
affect OA, the Royal Society position statement, and the rapidly 
multiplying book-scanning projects.

December issue
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-05.htm

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Peter Suber
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge
Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Editor, Open Access News blog
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