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A grapple with how such funds should be administered.

Will open access journals accept anything for publication? Account of an experiment with a Bentham open access journal.

Reading will keep getting more dynamic as we veer away from print, says The Institute for the Future of the Book.

See podcast entitled "The OA Argument is Won", by David Prosser, Executive Director of SPARC Europe, February 4, 2008. Podcast | 8.1MB.

Likelihood of open access being favored by the new administration.

From the February SPARC Open Access Newsletter, by Peter Suber Every research funding agency should have an OA policy, many already do, and most are probably thinking about it.  Here's a guide to the major decisions which come up in framing a new policy, reviewing an older one, or thinking about policies elsewhere.  Peter Suber starts with the choice-points facing funding agencies (1-12), and then look briefly at the choice-points which only arise for universities (13-18).  He offers a recommendation for each. 

A lawyer and homeless man meet. Friendship leads to a...book club.

Washington Post had to cancel series of meetings with lobbyists, etc., because of fears they violated ethics.