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  • (October 7, 2008) arXiv Reaches Half Million Milestone - Open Access repository arXiv announced today that the repository now hosts half a million eprints. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6602784.html
  • (September 30, 2008) NIH Responds to Public Comments - NIH released their response to the comments on their Public Access Policy submitted during the formal commenting period last spring. http://publicaccess.nih.gov/analysis_of_comments_nih_public_access_policy.pdf
  • (September 23, 2008) NIH Issues Reminder Concerning Grantee Compliance with Public Access Policy and Related NIH Monitoring Activities - NIH posted a reminder about the new policy noting that Program Officials will be contacting PI's who submit applications, proposals, or progress reports with citations for papers that fall under the policy and lack the requisite demonstration of compliance.PIs' will be expected to confirm that the listed papers are in compliance with the policy. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-119.html
  • (May 7, 2008) Harvard Law Faculty Votes for 'Open Access' to Scholarly Articles - Joining their counterparts in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard Law School Faculty unanimously vote to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available online for free, making HLS the first law school to commit to a mandatory open access policy. http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/faculty-research/hls-faculty-votes-for-%27open-access%27-to-articles.html
  • (February 13, 2008) Harvard to Collect, Disseminate Scholary Articles - In order to promote broad access to the results of their research, Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to give the University a license to make their peer reviewed articles available in an open access repository. For details, see http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/02.14/99-fasvote.html
  • (January 11, 2008) NIH Announces Revised Policy on Public Access to NIH Funded Research
    As of April 7, 2008 all NIH funded researchers are required to submit an electronic version of the their peer reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central so they can be publically available no later than 12 months after publication. For details, see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html