September issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

[Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>]

* Announcement (cross-posted) *

I just mailed the September issue of the SPARC Open Access 
Newsletter.  This issue takes a close look at the four hybrid OA 
journal programs launched in August (from BMJ, Wiley, Cambridge, 
and APS) and how the mid-term elections in the US could affect 
federal OA policies.  The Top Stories section takes a brief look 
at three institutions that have adopted OA mandates, the growing 
provost support for FRPAA, the launch of Open Access Central and 
Chemistry Central, the CERN plan to convert particle physics 
journals to OA, progress in providing OA to avian flu data, and 
the Google Library project's new partnership with the University 
of California and new willingness to let users print and download 
public-domain books.

September issue
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-06.htm

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Peter Suber
Senior Researcher, SPARC
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge
Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Author, Open Access News blog
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/
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