The Senate is scheduled to vote on the FY’08 Labor-HHS bill on Monday 22 October (approved by the HR and the full Senate Appropriations Committee) that includes a provision to change the current voluntary NIH Public Access Policy to mandatory. On Friday 19 October, Senator Inhofe (R-OK) filed two amendments (3416 and 3417) which call for the [...]

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Taylor & Francis recently announced that their “iOpenAccess” option has been extended to cover 31 journals in environmental and agricultural sciences, behavioral sciences and development studies. This is in addition to the 175 journals from T&F’s Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics portfolios, seven behavioral science journals from Psychology Press, and medical and bioscience journals from Informa Healthcare.  [...]

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has expressed support for Springer’s Open Choice program whereby articles are immediately published with full open access and deposited in repositories such as PubMed Central, at a flat-rate fee per article of $3,000. Under the new policy, HHMI will pay up to $2,000 in open access charges per article with [...]

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