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COMMONS MAGAZINE

Publishers Take Aim at Open Access

September 17, 2008
Conyers, Berman join publishing industry in trying to lock up taxpayer-funded medical research

A Major Victory for Open Access

March 17, 2008
A huge reservoir of federally funded medical research is about to be put into the public domain, thanks to persistent open-access advocates.

Gigi Sohn

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President, Public Knowledge, the Washington, D.C., advocacy group dedicated to the information commons and the public’s stake in the Internet, digital technologies and intellectual property law.

Andrew Jay Schwartzman

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President and CEO, Media Access Project; long-time advocate of public access, consumer rights and First Amendment principles in broadcasting, cable and other media.

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Washington, D.C.

A Setback for Open Access Publishing

March 16, 2005
Publishing empires strike back: journal publishers force the government to scale back a promising project to promote information on health.

SPARC Open Access Newsletter

This monthly newsletter published by SPARC—the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition—shares news and analysis of the open-access movement and explores how the Internet is transforming scholarly research and publication