en Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:08:05 UT Big Medium 2.0.8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/index.shtml <p>Barbara Fister, <em>Library Journal</em>, February 2, 2012</p> <p>"The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has done academic librarians a huge favor. When it publicly got behind the <a target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: underline; " href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3699:">Research Works Act</a>, it accomplished something librarians have been trying to do for decades. It turned a lot of scholars into open access activists."</p> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:52:19 UT http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/02/opinion/barbara-fister/tiptoeing-toward-the-tipping-point-peer-to-peer-review/ 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11224 News & Media Advocacy Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:01:35 UT http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/frpaa/frpaafaq.shtml 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-5195 Advocacy/Federal Research Public Access Act A collection of links to information, opinion, activism, and other issues concerning the practices of research journal publishers. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:29:56 UT http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Journal_publishing_reform 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11212 News & Media Advocacy Michael Kelley, <em>The Library Journal</em>, January 31, 2012 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:26:49 UT http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/01/publishing/petition-targeting-elseviers-business-practices-begins-to-snowball/http:// 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11211 News & Media Advocacy Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:45:54 UT http://my.aspb.org/resource/group/6d461cb9-5b79-4571-a164-924fa40395a5/docs/aspb_statement_re_rwa-final.pdf 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11198 News & Media Advocacy Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:38:07 UT http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/30/your-comments-access-federally-funded-scientific-research-results 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11194 News & Media Advocacy Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:53:42 UT http://thecostofknowledge.com/ 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11192 News & Media Advocacy Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:32:57 UT http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/oawg-on-3699.pdf 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11181 Advocacy The Alliance for Natural Health USA, January 24, 2012 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:37:30 UT http://www.anh-usa.org/no-science-for-you/ 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11160 Advocacy <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ">Jennifer Howard,&#160;<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The Chronicle of Higher Education</em>, January 22, 2012</span> Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:38:23 UT http://chronicle.com/article/Who-Gets-to-See-Published/130403/ 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11156 Advocacy January 18, 2012 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:49:24 UT http://www.nature.com/press_releases/rwa-statement.html 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11142 Advocacy Ginger Pinholster, AAAS, January 18, 2012 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:48:13 UT http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2012/0118rwa.shtml 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11141 Advocacy Adrienne Burke, <em>Forbes</em>, January 17, 2012 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:03:55 UT http://www.forbes.com/sites/techonomy/2012/01/17/democrat-maloney-and-republican-issa-ally-to-hurt-science-and-help-companies/ 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11122 Advocacy Lena Groeger, <em>ProPublica</em>, January 12, 2012 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:44:24 UT http://www.propublica.org/article/new-bill-would-put-taxpayer-funded-science-behind-pay-walls 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11117 Advocacy Thomas Lin, <em>The New York Times</em>, January 16, 2012 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:42:46 UT http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/open-science-challenges-journal-tradition-with-web-collaboration.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&ref=science?src=dayp 26dcad34a129342ec248209da133647b-11115 Advocacy