Archive for the tag "Research Works Act"
What Are the Next Steps?
It’s a phrase often heard at the end of a meeting: what are our next steps? When I worked as a web editor and project manager we called them action items (which is, admittedly, corporate jargon, but also makes them sound kind of fun). What does each person at the meeting need to do to [...]
Posted: 24 February, 2012 in Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: advocacy, Elsevier, FRPAA, Research Works Act
Comments: 2
Stop Making Sense (Scholarly Publishing Edition)
Yesterday I was flabbergasted to read about the Research Works Act (hat tip to @CopyrightLibn and @RepoRat), legislation which is strongly supported by the Association of American Publishers. As described on the AAP website: The Research Works Act will prohibit federal agencies from unauthorized free public dissemination of journal articles that report on research which, [...]
Posted: 6 January, 2012 in Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: advocacy, Elsevier, legislation, Research Works Act, SOPA, toll access publishing
Comments: 10