Both Science (AAAS) and Nature have joined the publishes that have disavowed the (U.S.) Research Works Act (H. R. 3699) which would make it illegal for federal funding agencies to mandate (require) Green OA (self-archiving).
(The Act is supported by the American Association of Publishers AAP.) "AAAS Does Not Endorse the Research Works Act" http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2012/0118rwa.shtml "Nature Publishing Group and Digital Science joint statement on Research Works Act" http://www.nature.com/press_releases/rwa-statement.html _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
