FRPAA was re-introduced in the House of Representatives last week by Representatives Doyle (D-PA), Waxman (D-CA), Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL), Harper (R-MS), Boucher (D-VA) and Rohrabacher (R-CA).
The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) of 2010 (H.R. 5037) would apply to research from all federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets over $100 million.
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FRPAA’s Back!
House Bill Proposes [...]

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The newest addition to thePubMed Central (PMC) International effort, PubMed Central Canada, is now publicly available. PMC Canada is the result of a three-way collaborative effort by the National Library of Medicine®, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI).
Full Announcement

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The Office of Science and Technology Policy recently launched a public forum on public access policies.
“The Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President and the White House Open Government Initiative is launching a “Public Access Policy Forum” to invite public participation in thinking through what the Federal government’s policy [...]

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In conjunction with the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the libraries of Washington University along with its partners, the University of Missouri and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, are pleased to host a free day-long workshop that covers scholarly communication and strategies for author support. There are two workshop sessions being offered:

Scholarly Communication 101: Starting [...]

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Autism Speaks recently announced a new public access policy which stipulates that investigators whose research is funded by Autism Speaks must deposit an electronic copy of their peer-reviewed manuscript to PubMed Central upon acceptance of publication with a 12 month embargo period.
The Autism Speaks public access policy applies to Autism Speaks grants awarded after 03 December 2008.

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Canada’s Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently enacted a new policy, Policy on Access to Research Outputs, effective as of January 2008 that requires all research papers generated from CIHR funded projects to be freely accessible through publishers’ websites or an online repository within six months of publication. At this time there is no [...]

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