October issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

[Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>]

* Announcement (cross-posted) *

I just mailed the October issue of the SPARC Open Access 
Newsletter.  This issue summarizes the state of OA legislation in 
the just-ended session of Congress and takes a close look at the 
indirect ways in which access might affect quality.  The Top 
Stories section takes a brief look at the university 
administrators supporting and opposing FRPAA, the continued 
expansion of the hybrid journal model, an NIH-publisher agreement 
that hurts researchers, a new policy at the NEH (not NIH) to 
favor OA projects, and a statement by a Vice President of the 
Association of American Publishers that it's in the national 
interest to limit access to publicly-funded research to those who 
can afford to pay.

October issue
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-06.htm

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Peter Suber
Senior Researcher, SPARC
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge
Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Author, Open Access News blog
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/
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