Archive for the tag "SOPA"
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