Bill Against NIH Open-Access Policy Back in House
A news item in GenomeWeb Daily News is reporting that A bill aimed at limiting the open-access publishing policy adopted by the National Institutes of Health has been re-introduced in the US House of...
View ArticleNIH Public Access Mandate in Jeopardy!
An email from ARL (Association of Research Libraries) concerning a recently submitted bill, supported by some of our largest publishers, that would reverse the NIH Public Access mandate, and also make...
View ArticleModern Language Association Style Guide Has Big Changes
This news item in /Inside Higher Education/ would be of interest to many -- http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/11/mla The /MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers/ (Modern Language...
View ArticleFarewell to the Printed Monograph
From Inside Higher Ed (3/23/09): "The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is...
View ArticleFederal Research Public Access Act, 2009
Yesterday, Senators Lieberman (I-CT) and Cornyn (R-TX) (re-)introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (S.1373), a bill that would ensure free, timely, online access to the published results of...
View ArticleFive Major American Universities Commit to Support OA Journals
From Open Access News... A Compact for Open-Access Publication, press release, September 14, 2009. Five of the nation's premier institutions of higher learning—Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the...
View ArticleIDEALS Digital Repository Surpasses 1-millionth Download
NEWS RELEASE 7 October 2009 IDEALS Digital Repository Surpasses 1-millionth Download Urbana, Illinois—The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), a digital...
View ArticleWhat WAS the 1,000,000th Downloaded Item from IDEALS?
As announced the other day, the 1,000,000th idem had been downloaded from the University of Illinois digital archive, IDEALS. For those of you wondering.... Download #999,999 ==================== "Milk...
View ArticleScholarly Communication and Open Access Week @ the University Library
The Library is pleased to offer a range of lectures and workshops on scholarly communication, open access, and copyright the week of October 26-30....
View ArticleNobel Laureates Urge the U.S. Congress to Ensure Free Online Access to...
Washington, DC “For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible,” is the message that forty one Nobel...
View ArticleCall To Support Public Access to Federally Funded Research
ACRL and ALA call for increased public access to federally funded research Associations encourage members to do likewise by Jan. 21 WASHINGTON, D.C.– The American Library Association (ALA) and the...
View ArticleElectronic Deposit of Dissertations and Theses a Success!
As many of you know, the U of Illinois Graduate College, in collaboration with IDEALS, offered optional Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) deposit to the entire campus for December graduation....
View ArticleIthaka Faculty Survey, 2009
Food for Thought... From Inside Higher Ed: "Eroding Library Role?" If libraries do not seriously rethink their role in the lives of researchers, they could come to be seen as resource purchasers more...
View ArticlePublic Access to Publicly Funded Research Bill Update
House committee to hold hearing on public access to publicly funded research Support for public access expands in Congress Washington, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and...
View ArticleFormer NIH Director Touts Benefits of Open Federal Science
Reposted from: http://www.ombwatch.org/node/11332 Former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Harold Varmus touts the benefits of open science in a new video released for Open Access Week (Oct....
View Article
