Republican leaders of the U.S. Senate have decided to postpone voting on all remaining spending bills for the 2007 fiscal year until January, when a new, Democrat-controlled Congress will convene....
Congress has passed only two of the 12 appropriations bills that must be approved annually to finance the entire federal government. The passed bills are for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. The House of Representatives has approved its version of almost all the remaining ones, but so far the Senate has approved none of those -- a job that is among its primary responsibilities under the Constitution....
Comment. What's the OA connection? One of the 12 appropriations bills pending action in January is the one funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH). That bill includes language, approved by the House Appropriations Committee, instructing the NIH to strengthen its public access policy by converting it from a request to a requirement. The postponement doesn't clearly help or clearly hurt this proposal.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/21/2006 06:13:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
