Re: Provosts' letter in support of FRPAA

["William Walsh" <libwdw@langate.gsu.edu>]

It's also available in Word on the Inside Higher Ed site.

http://insidehighered.com/index.php/content/download/77348/1053482/file/FRPAAletterFinal7-24-06-1.doc

>>> espositoj@gmail.com 8/1/2006 7:01 PM >>>

Can someone explain the logic by which an "open letter" on Open
Access is mounted in a hard-to-find manner on a Web site and then
presented in a format that does not permit copying, pasting, and
so forth?  What a frustration!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sandler" <sandler@umich.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: Provosts' letter in support of FRPAA

> Colleagues:
>
> This past Friday I submitted a post to this LIST calling 
> attention to an open letter in support of FRPAA signed by 25 
> provosts.  The letter ran in Inside Higher Ed, ARL posted it to 
> its site, and others have picked up long segments. 
> Nonetheless, the document URL I provided on Friday is 
> apparently restricted to the lucky few readers affiliated with 
> the CIC, so a better path to the letter is to go to the gateway 
> page of the CIC site (http://www.cic.uiuc.edu) and then follow 
> the news link (An Open Letter...) to the document.  It's worth 
> a read, so I hope you find it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark Sandler, Director
> Center for Library Initiatives
> Committee on Institutional Cooperation
> Champaign, IL  61820