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On April 27, 2020 , the Supreme Court decided an important case about copyright law and access to the law --  Georgia v. Public.Resource.org...

As many may know, on April 1, 2012, the World Bank adopted an important open access policy for formal publications by World Bank staff.  Th...

Thanks to all who have supported our petition to the White House to require that the published results of all research funded by the federa...

Yesterday, May 21, 2012, we launched a big push to get 25,000 signatures in the next 30 days on a White House petition asking President Ob...

Publicly funded research outputs should be freely accessible by the public absent compelling reasons to withhold access. That's a simpl...

Senators Lieberman and Cornyn have reintroduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (S. 1373) , which would require agencies with large r...

Stuart Shieber , Professor and Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at Harvard,has started an open access blog, The Occasional ...

On Wednesday, April 8, I gave an open access presentation at Columbia University, and I asked the question why the university as a whole was...

Congratulations are due to the American Physical Society and the Harvard University Office of Scholarly Communication for working out an und...

The momentum for campus-wide action on open access is building. Tomorrow, I'll be speaking at American University Library's Digital...

This is a very good week for open access. Perhaps there is something in the water in Cambridge, Mass. because now the Kennedy School of Gov...

Big news at MIT. By unanimous faculty vote, MIT adopted the first University-wide OA mandate in the United States for faculty authors. The...

As Peter Suber reports , yesterday Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) re-introduced the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act . This year it's ...

The NIH mandate is succeeding. Shouldn't all federally funded researchers who produce research articles with federal support have to de...

The first thing a student learns in a microeconomics class is that " There ain't no such thing as a free lunch ." This lesson ...

Whatever one thinks about the rest of the Google Book business, I think it's important to focus on the digitization of public domain boo...

If private funders of scientific and scholarly research want to maximize the impact of their investments, they should condition their fundin...

I want to thank my colleagues in the legal academy who responded to the AAP's unfounded legal attack on the NIH Public Access Policy by ...

On September 9th, Mr. Conyers introduced H.R. 6845, " The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act ", into the House of Representative...