Peter Suber’s Open Access News blog is a compilation of news items from the world of Open Access Movement. According to Peter, “Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” This evolving compilation of happenings in the Open Access Movement is a critical resource that provides current awareness […]
According to the New York Times, (May 8, 2006), “The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006, proposed last week by Senators Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, and John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, would require 11 government agencies to publish online any articles that contained research financed with federal grants. If enacted, the measure […]
The Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering presented the first Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award, administered by a joint committee of the societies, in March. The biennial award is funded ($5000) by the J.W. & H.M. Goodman Foundation. The prize honors a recent outstanding […]
