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The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Re-introduced

Cathy — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:06:36 +0000

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.

PubMed Central Canada

Cathy — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:33:43 +0000

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

OSTP Public Forum to Discuss Options for Improving Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research

Cathy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:50:18 +0000

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 should be with regard to public access to published federally-funded research results.”

Comments will be accepted until January 7, 2010.

Federal Register link

Scholarly Communication Road Show and Support for Authors Workshop

Cathy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:31:00 +0000

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 with the Basics
Strategies for Author Support

The workshop sessions are appropriate for academic library staff with leadership assignments in scholarly communication as well as subject liaisons and others who are interested in learning more about author support strategies.

For more information and registration see the Roadshow website.

New Public Access Policy Announced by Autism Speaks

Cathy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:05:40 +0000

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.

CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs

Cathy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:08:19 +0000

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 central repository model similar to PubMed Central but CIHR and the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) are planning development of a PubMed Central International (PMCI) Canada repository site.