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conference committees, drawing on members of the house and senate to iron out differences between two versions of passed legislation (and in private), have been known to make major changes in final legislation.
bq
-----Original Message-----
>From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>Sent: Oct 24, 2007 12:46 PM
>To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
>Subject: NIH Green OA Mandate Now Passed By US Senate: No Need for Universities to Keep Waiting to Implement It
>
>The US Senate has now passed the NIH Green OA Mandate by a big
>majority:
>https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/4024.html
>
>There is no need for US Universities to keep waiting now
>(to see whether it is implemented, or vetoed by President Bush).
>http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/119-guid.html
>
>Universities can already go ahead, knowing they have the blessing
>of both Houses of Congress, and adopt Green OA Mandates for their own
>institutional research output, deposited in their own Institutional
>Repositories -- and not just for the NIH-funded biomedical research,
>but for all their research output (along the lines of the US
>Federal Research Public Access Act [FRPAA], which is also soon to be
>revived).
>http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php
>
>And so can research funders (including the NIH!).
>
>The handwriting is on the wall, and it is Green. And meanwhile, daily,
>weekly, monthly research access and impact are still being lost, needlessly,
>and cumulatively, at the expense of research productivity and progress for
>us all.
>
>
>Stevan Harnad
>AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
>http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/
>
>UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS:
>If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access
>to your own research article output, please describe your policy at:
> http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html
>
>OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
> BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
> http://romeo.eprints.org/
>OR
> BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when
> a suitable one exists.
> http://www.doaj.org/
>AND
> in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
> in your own institutional repository.
> http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
> http://archives.eprints.org/
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/
barbara quint
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Received on Thu Oct 25 2007 - 11:03:07 BST