Mar
20
2009
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access today posted an announcement that President Obama yesterday signed into law the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a provision making the National Institutes’ of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy permanent. The NIH Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access requires eligible NIH-funded researchers to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine’s online archive, PubMed Central (PMC). Full texts of the articles are made publicly available and searchable online in PMC no later than 12 months after publication in a journal.
Click on http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/Release09-0312.html for more information.
May
16
2007
Free Government Information
Free Government Information was initiated by Jim A. Jacobs, James R. Jacobs, Shinjoung Yeo, three librarians at University of California San Diego, along with Daniel Cornwall, librarian at the Alaska State Library, in order to raise public awareness of the importance of government information and create a community with various stakeholders to facilitate an open and critical dialogue.
The mission: “Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various players (libraries, government agencies, non-profit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.) who have a stake in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information. FGI promotes free government information through collaboration, education, advocacy and research.”
Jul
17
2006
Federal Documents Task Force Report, Jan. 2004
Task Force formed by members of the ALA Government Documents Round Table to investigate issues surrounding the question of providing permanent public access of federal government information and publications. The final report is available in both Word and PDF formats. A white paper is to follow within two months of publishing the report.
