[GOAL] Recent OA developments in Australia

[Richard Poynder]

Last month Elsevier withdrew its support for the controversial Research
Works Act. Had it become law, the RWA would have rolled back the NIH Public
Access Policy requiring that funded researchers make their papers freely
available on the Web within 12 months of publication. It would also have
outlawed other US federal agencies from introducing similar policies. As
such, the bill was a direct assault on Green Open Access. But while
Elsevier's retreat was a big win for supporters of Open Access, OA will
continue to be a brick-by-brick process - as evidenced by recent events in
Australia.

 

More here:
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2012/03/open-access-brick-by-brick.html

 

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