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Despite the fact that the Ducks are our in-state rivals, but because I’m a native Oregonian and have love for any Oregon school, I’m pleased to report that the University of Oregon library faculty has declared their own OA mandate. For more information, see: Open Access News: An OA mandate for U of Oregon library [...]
Via Peter Suber & Gavin Baker‘s Open Access News: MIT adopts a university-wide OA mandate Something must be in the water! Just after yesterday’s announcement that Oregon State University Librarians adopted an open access mandate, MIT has done the same thing — university-wide! Barbara Fister from the ACRL blog writes some nice thoughts about this [...]
Go Beavs! Oregon State University Librarians have adopted an open access mandate, requiring deposit of scholarly work by the University’s faculty librarians into ScholarsArchive@OSU. From the mandate: “The faculty members of the OSU Libraries support open access to our scholarship and knowledge. Consequently, we grant to the OSU Libraries permission to make our scholarly work [...]
Today I stumbled upon CollegeDegree.com‘s posting of 100 Extensive University Libraries From Around the World that Anyone Can Access. That’s exactly correct – anyone can access certain collections from these libraries – no affiliation needed! The 100 libraries fit within the following categories of interest: – Digital Libraries – International Digital Libraries – Texts – [...]
From Ohmygov (by way of LibraryStuff), Bill would ban free publication of taxpayer funded research On February 3rd, Representative John R. Conyers (MI-14) introduced H.R. 801, a bill also known as the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act. According to the Congressional Record summary of the bill (as of 2/3/09), The Fair Copyright in Research [...]
