Open access added to 2014 Omnibus Appropriations (Jan. 16, 2014) – Following on the White House/OSTP Open Access Directive, the appropriations bill passed in January 2014 included funding for open access for the Departments of Education, Labor, and Health & Human Services. Read more at the Association of Research Libraries’
R.I.P. Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 Aaron Swartz, an open access activist, committed suicide on Friday, January 10, 2013. He was facing a 13-count indictment from the US Dept. of Justice for breaking into JStor, an academic articles database, although JStor had dropped all charges. Academics worldwide have begun releasing their papers
Open Access AND Open Use / Jan. 6, 2013 – Cameron Neylon, “Science Publishing: Open Access Must Enable Open Use”, Nature 492, pp. 348-349 (Dec. 20, 2012). Open access is not enough – researchers need to be able to index and have other reuse rights to scholarly literature.