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alt="" width="130" height="90"></a>At the end
of 2010, the <em>4cast</em> took a look at <a
href="http://www.oplin.org/4cast/?p=1542">open
access</a> to scholarly information. While news
on this topic may not be as frequent as news about
ebooks, for example, or other more popular topics,
there have been some significant, if gradual,
developments in this area over the last year and a
half. The whole discussion of open access may seem
simply academic wishful thinking to some people,
but the fact that the latest news all seems to
concern practical things like money and politics
might indicate that open access to research
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/06/open-access-victory-successful-access2research-petition">Open
access victory in successful Access2Research
petition</a> (Electronic Frontier
Foundation/Parker Higgins) "Earlier this year,
we saw the resounding defeat of the misguided
Research Works Act, which would have severely
restricted the amount of research that could be
released under open access conditions. A group
of researchers launched the '<a
href="http://thecostofknowledge.com/">Cost of
Knowledge</a>' campaign responding to the
proposal, and allowed other academics to
publicly boycott the bill's primary supporter,
the publishing behemoth Elsevier. In response to
that boycott and other pressure, <a
href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/newmessagerwa">Elsevier
withdrew its support for the Research Works
Act in February</a>, effectively killing the
bill."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/06/mla-embraces-open-access-writer-agreements-journals">MLA
shift on copyright</a> (Inside Higher
Education/Scott Jaschik) "Rosemary G. Feal,
executive director of the MLA [Modern Language
Association], said that the association's new
policy 'was not responding at all' to the
legislation and regulations. Rather, she said,
'we see that publishing needs are changing, and
our members are telling us that they want to
place their scholarship in repositories, and to
disseminate work on blogs.' Professors want to
produce articles that 'circulate freely,' she
said, and that reach as many people as
possible."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/08/open-access-research-inevitable-nature-editor">Open
access to research is inevitable, says Nature
editor-in-chief</a> (Guardian/Alok Jha)
"Philip Campbell said that the experience for
readers and researchers of having research
freely available is 'very compelling'. But other
academic publishers said that any large-scale
transition to making research freely available
had to take into account the value and
investments they added to the scientific
process."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/new-open-access-journal-aims-to-disrupt-scholarly-publishing/">Pay
(less) to publish: ambitious journal aims to
disrupt scholarly publishing</a> (Ars
Technica/John Timmer) "Publishers that offer
open access options need to recoup their costs
without subscription fees, however, and had
researchers pay for their publications with
charges that are generally over $1,000. Now, a
new open access journal is being launched that
aims to turn the finances on their head.
Researchers will only have to pay a one-time fee
of $259 to gain lifetime publishing privileges
in the journal, which will focus on biology
research."</li>
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subscription fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">A May <a
href="http://www.publishers.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2260">report</a>
commissioned by The Publishers Association and the
Association of Learned and Professional Society
Publishers found that, if open access became
mandatory, 46% of libraries would cut back their
subscriptions to scientific journals and 65% would
drop subscriptions to humanities journals. </div>
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