Industry trends

SPARC is asking all supporters of public access to oppose the reintroduction of the 'Fair Copyright in Research Works Act' in the USA.

The UK's EPSRC has decided to mandate open-access publication of the research that it funds

The executive director of the Association of Research Libraries has urged the US government to finance a large-scale digitisation project as a way to help the economy

The Association of American Publishers has welcomed US legislation that aims to safeguard the rights of authors and publishers of copyrighted, peer-reviewed scientific journal articles.

Twelve projects have been approved for the SURFshare programme. The projects aim to promote knowledge dissemination via the internet and contribute to improving the Dutch knowledge infrastructure

The chief executive of the British Library, Lynne Brindley, has challenged the UK government that it must include preservation in its vision of a 'Digital Britain'

The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has expressed its interest in joining SCOAP3, the open-access high-energy physics consortium

The Collections Trust and the Strategic Content Alliance are working together to find out what impact orphan works have on the delivery of services to the public