http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/ en-us 2012-05-25T13:51:49-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/357042.html From the University of California, San Francisco press release of May 23, 2012: The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, helping to reverse decades of practice... policies stemp003 2012-05-25T13:51:49-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/356544.html From the Chronicle of Higher Education, May 13 edition: A federal judge in Atlanta has handed down a long-awaited ruling in a lawsuit brought by three scholarly publishers against Georgia State University over its use of copyrighted material in electronic... in the news stemp003 2012-05-18T11:38:48-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/355006.html From the April 30 Minnesota Daily: The University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development released an open online textbook catalog, allowing faculty from around the world to discuss and showcase online textbooks to help manage textbook costs for... in the news stemp003 2012-05-04T10:29:56-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/353626.html On April 17, Harvard's Faculty Advisory Council issued a Memorandum on Journal Pricing to faculty members in all schools, faculties, and units. It warns of an "untenable situation facing the Harvard Library," citing a publishing environment where: "Some journals cost... reports and statements stemp003 2012-04-27T11:50:58-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/351489.html April 16, 2012 To: Minnesota Legislators The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012 (S. 2096/H.R. 4004) was introduced to the House and the Senate on February 9, 2012 with robust bipartisan sponsorship. FRPAA would require that any federal agencies... reports and statements stemp003 2012-04-17T15:16:24-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/351299.html Douglas Arnold, McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota, and Henry Cohn, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at MIT, have co-authored an article entitled "Mathematicians Take a Stand." It discusses... in the news stemp003 2012-04-16T10:05:01-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/349793.html The University of Minnesota Libraries and the Department of Anthropology present Open Research and Learning: Collaboration, Connections & Communities Monday, April 30, 2012 • 2:00-4:00 p.m. Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey School of Public Affairs Light refreshments will be served. The "open"... Events stemp003 2012-04-06T10:35:18-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/348532.html According to the March 28 issue of Library Journal: On March 20 some 24 new co-sponsors signed on to H.R. 4004, The Federal Research Public Access Act. Joining the bill's original sponsors, Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO)... in the news stemp003 2012-03-30T13:13:13-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/346343.html Columbia University has made available the video recordings of its February 28 event Protests, Petitions and Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012: How can access to important research and scholarship be available to all, not just "the one percent"?... Events stemp003 2012-03-15T14:08:29-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/342353.html The sponsors of the Research Works Act, Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) issued a joint statement declaring that bill was dead in Congress: The introduction of HR 3699 has spurred a robust, expansive debate on the topics... in the news stemp003 2012-03-02T10:50:03-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/337924.html From the February 9 press release by U.S. Representative Mike Doyle (D-PA): U.S. Representative Mike Doyle (D-PA) today introduced bipartisan legislation that directs federal agencies to encourage open public access to federally funded scientific research. [...] The Federal Research Public... stemp003 2012-02-10T11:48:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/336675.html From the White House web site: On November 3, 2011, OSTP released a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting public input on long-term preservation of, and public access to, the results of federally funded research, including peer-reviewed scholarly publications as required... in the news stemp003 2012-02-03T12:23:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/329454.html Peter Suber reports that Ellen Faran, the director of MIT Press, released an email stating: "The AAP's press release on the Research Works Act does not reflect the position of the MIT Press; nor, I imagine, the position of many... in the news stemp003 2012-01-13T10:22:46-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/328783.html From SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: A new bill, The Research Works Act (H.R.3699), designed to roll back the NIH Public Access Policy and block the development of similar policies at other federal agencies has been introduced... in the news stemp003 2012-01-06T13:00:56-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/327698.html In April 2008, the National Institutes of Health placed a new reporting requirement on researchers, asking them to deposit the final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of all articles arising from NIH-funded research into PubMed Central, where they would be freely accessible to... reports and statements stemp003 2011-12-16T11:35:22-06:00