Open Access to Scholarly Publications (video)

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SUMMARY: With this notice, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President, requests input from the community regarding enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from research funded by Federal science and technology agencies. This…
Via Lance Fortnow's Twitter post, it's interesting to see Communications of the ACM editor Moshe Y. Vardi on Open Access: First, a point of precision. Open-access experts distinguish between "Gold OA," described earlier, and "Green OA," which allows for open access self-archiving of material (…
It is always interesting to dig through one's blog archives and see what happened when, or get reminded of a post one forgot was ever written ;-) So, here are some of the key posts on A Blog Around The Clock from 2009, chosen from almost 2000 posts that appeared here this year (which is MUCH less…
Finally, the Canadian government's Tri-Agency funding councils (SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR) have released the consolidated final version of it's open access policy. The draft version came out some time ago. The consultation process garnered quite a few responses, which the Tri-Agencies were kind enough to…

It's nice to know that I'm not the only person who cares about this issue. I wrote a couple of posts about this on my blog (see the links below), but I saw a lot of disapproval from people who like our current private journal system (without open access). Here are the posts, in case you'd like to see them:

http://www.globallyrational.com/2008/04/11/the-global-network-of-scient…

http://www.globallyrational.com/2008/04/30/4-ways-to-foster-scientific-…