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Heather Morrison: Opposition to open access continues, while anti-OA coalition attempt implodes Would a bold politician speak up for an unprecedented public good? Full OA is a reasonable position, plus, compromise takes two! Peter Murray-Rast: Reconciling points of View Deepak Singh: Steve Brenner'…
Bouphonia: The Conservatism to Come. SciCurious: Weird Science: it's Friday!. Since I do not have time and energy for my Friday Weird Sex Blogging series, I am glad that someone picked up on it. This post is about condoms and why they break. Echidne: He Loved Horses Two excellent posts and…
Yesterday, President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) which, among else, mandates the repository of all NIH-funded research into PubMedCentral within at most 12 months after publication. Until now, the placement of NIH-funded research papers into publicly…
Note: this post is superseded by: Around the Web: Research Works Act, Elsevier boycott & FRPAA. This post has superseded my previous post which focused solely on the Research Works Act. I have added some coverage of the Elsevier boycott which at least partially grew out of opposition to the…