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(February 27, 2012) Elsevier dropped their support for the Research Works Act. They followed this with a Letter to the Mathematics Community announcing a reduction in price for mathematics journals and other responses to the recent call for a boycott.
(January 22, 2012) The Cost of Knowledge is launched as a web site for researchers to sign on to a boycott of Elsevier.
(January 21, 2012) Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers posted on his blog today why he is boycotting Elsevier. He also calls for a website where others could sign on with a similar declaration. One key reason for this effort now is Elsevier's support for the Research Works Act.
(October 31, 2011) Eric Kansa and Steve Koch have both posted summaries of their talks and visits to the UA for the Open Access Week events.
(August 3, 2011) Kansas University announced the founding of COAPI, the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions. Twenty-one other institutions signed on at the launch of the new coalition to "collaborate and share implementation strategies and advocate on a national level for institutions with open access policies."
(July 18, 2011) The UK's Parliament's Science and Technology Committee released a new report on Peer Review in Scientific Publications. The report reviews the current state of peer review, raises some concerns, and concludes that "data associated with publically funded research should, where possible, be made widely and freely available."