From Advocacy to Implementation: The NIH Public Access Policy and Its Impact
Journal of Library Administration, Volume 48, Issue 2, 2008On December 26, 2007, President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 into law. The bill contained language requiring all...
View ArticleOpen Access Advocacy: A Checklist for Research Libraries
Digital Libraries à la Carte : 28 July - 5 August 2009Written by Alma Swan
View ArticleCoalition of Open Access Policy Institutions Supports FRPAA
"We the undersigned, member universities of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) or their affiliated libraries, write to register our strong support for the Federal Research Public...
View ArticleBackground and Aims
Background and aims Public funding of scientific, technical and medical (STM) research is undertaken with the expectation that the economic and social returns to taxpayers will exceed the amount of the...
View ArticleNIH public access policy implementation – available resources, a letter to...
Date: February 5, 2008To: SPARC DirectorsFrom: Heather Joseph, SPARC Executive DirectorRe: NIH public access policy implementation – available...
View ArticleComplying with the NIH Public Access Policy - Copyright Considerations and...
This White Paper is written primarily for policymaking staff in universities and other institutional recipients of NIH support responsible for ensuring compliance with the Public Access Policy.
View ArticleEconomic and Social Returns on Investment in Open Archiving Publicly Funded...
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) provided support for a feasibility study, to outline one possible approach to measuring the impacts of the proposed US Federal Research...
View ArticleOpen Access: Unlocking the Value of Scientific Research
A SPARC white paper by Richard Johnson.
View ArticleOpen Access, a book by Peter Suber
In "Open Access," Peter Suber provides a concise introduction that explains what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright...
View ArticleThe Future of Taxpayer-Funded Research: Who Will Control Access to the Results?
In 2012, the Committee for Economic Development released the report, "The Future of Taxpayer-Funded Research: Who Will Control Access to the Results?" which concluded that federal Open Access policies...
View ArticleThe Open Access Movement Grows Up: Taking Stock of a Revolution
PLOS BiologyIt's been just over a decade since the concept of Open Access (OA) first captured the attention of the scientific and scholarly research community, bringing with it the promise and...
View ArticleUpdated HowOpenIsIt? Open Access Spectrum Guide
SPARC is pleased to join with PLOS and OASPA in releasing an update to the popular HowOpenIsIt? Open Access Spectrum (OAS) guide. The guide, initially released in late 2012, is used by authors,...
View ArticleThe Emerging Open Access Policy Framework in the U.S.
Berlin 11 10th Anniversary Meeting Berlin, GermanyIn order to support continued adoption of the principles outlined in the Berlin Declaration, as well as to track progress on their implementation, the...
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