Several organizations have released statements of support for the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA, S.1373), the U.S. legislation which would provide OA to funded research government-wide:
Knowledge Ecology International with IP Justice, Essential Action, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, and OXFAM America, July 21, 2009
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.
