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Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Coalition Calls on White House to Open Up Taxpayer-Funded Educational Materials
Open Education
Today, a broad coalition of more than 90 organizations (update: now 109) representing the education, library, technology, public interest and legal communities released a letter calling on President Obama to open up educational materials created with federal taxpayer funds. Building on the ...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Coalition Letter to President Obama Calling for OER Policy Commitment
Open EducationMore than 100 organizations joined together to send this letter calling on President Obama to ensure that federally funded educational and training resources are made available to the public to freely use, share, and improve.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015
SPARC Calls on White House to Open Up Access to Federally Funded Educational Resources
Open EducationToday, The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), along with a broad coalition of more than 85 education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organizations, called on the White House to take administrative action to ensure federally funded educational materials are
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Monday, August 3, 2015
Bill would require public access to taxpayer-funded research
Open AccessThe Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted in favor of a bill that would require publicly funded research to be made available online, for free, within a year of publication.
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
Senate panel passes bill to give public access to more research
Open Access · Open DataA Senate panel on Wednesday passed legislation to require certain federally funded research to be open to the public.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Senate panel approves public access bill
Open AccessOpen-access advocates are heralding a Senate panel’s approval today of a bill that would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer-reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
SPARC Applauds Senate Committee Action on Public Access Legislation
Open AccessFor Immediate Release: July 29, 2015 Contact: Ranit Schmelzer 202-5380-1065 | [email protected] SPARC Applauds Senate Committee Action on Public Access Legislation HSGAC approves Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act, which would ensure that public access to ...
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Thursday, June 25, 2015
Sharing Policy Draws Criticism; Elsevier Responds
Open AccessHowever, SPARC executive director Heather Joseph pointed out, “The initial practice of Elsevier [in 2004] was to allow not only immediate deposit of authors’ manuscripts and repositories, but immediate accessibility. We’d like them to go back to that.”
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