So yesterday's post is obe, lol.
You might have seen the many calls to sign the We the People petition on Open Access (many tweets were tagged #OAMonday because there was a big push on a Monday to get the signatures rolling in). OSTP (the office of science and technology policy in the White House) has responded here: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-access-results-scientific-research
The OSTP Open Access memo is here (pdf): http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf
So exciting, so happy. Now back to work!
News via John Dupuis who is retweeting a lot of things from around the web.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
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