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Friday, September 02, 2005

September issue of SOAN

I just mailed the September issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at Jan Velterop's move to Springer and Elsevier's experiment with free online access at Information and Computation. It also includes some reflections on 9/11, four years later. The Top Stories section takes a brief look at the continuing debate over the draft RCUK policy, some OA initiatives in India, Google's decision to suspend the scanning of copyrighted books until November, and a new JISC-SURF report on scholar attitudes toward copyright.