This note came over the LITA-L listserv from Charles W. Bailey over at Digital Scholarship. It’s worth reading. In the interest of getting this out to as many folks as possible, I’ll just post the e-mail in its (slightly edited) entirety, active links and all:
Peter Suber reports that the NIH open access mandate may be deleted or weakened by last-minute amendments to the FY 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill.
Click here for Peter Suber’s report
If you are a US citizen and you support the mandate, there is an urgent need for you to contact your senators by the end of business on Monday, October 22.
You can easily contact them using the ALA Action Alert Web form with my cut-and-paste version of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access’ text about the amendments or you can use the same form to write your own text.
You can easily contact them using the ALA Action Alert Web form with my cut-and-paste version of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access’ text about the amendments or you can use the same form to write your own text.
Not to push both my readers, but I think you could do worse than to forward this to someone.
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