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June 26, 2009
Federal Research Public Access Act, 2009
Yesterday, Senators Lieberman (I-CT) and Cornyn (R-TX) (re-)introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (S.1373), a bill that would ensure free, timely, online access to the published results of research funded by eleven U.S. federal agencies. S.1373 would require those agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million or more to provide the public with online access to research manuscripts stemming from such funding no later than six months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The bill gives individual agencies flexibility in choosing the location of the digital repository to house this content, as long as the repositories meet conditions for interoperability and public accessibility, and have provisions for long-term archiving.
The bill specifically covers unclassified research funded by agencies including:
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Science Foundation
S. 1373 reflects the growing trend among funding agencies and college and university campuses to leverage their investment in the conduct of research by maximizing the dissemination of results. It follows the successful path forged by the NIH Public Access Policy, as well as by private funders like the Wellcome Trust, and universities such as Harvard and MIT.
The Library has requested that our Washington government relations liaison contact our representatives in support of this bill.
If you would like to voice your opinion on this bill to our representatives, an easy way to do so has been provided at the Alliance for Taxpayer Access website:
http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=sparc
You may use one of their pre-written forms, or compose your own.
Detailed information about the Federal Research Public Access Act is available at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/Release09-0625.html.
Or read the text of the bill, online.
This memo was clipped from a longer message received from:
Heather Joseph
Spokesperson for the Alliance for Taxpayer Access and Executive Director of SPARC
Telephone: (202) 296-2296
Email: heather [at] arl [dot] org
Posted by mmalliso at 12:06 PM
June 24, 2009
Seminar: Infrastructure for The Data Web
I thought many of you would be interested in attending this seminar! Especially if you are dealing with large data sets or are interested in making data and publications more freely available on the Web.
(please pardon redundant notifications)
Speaker: John Wilbanks, VP for Science, Creative Commons
(creativecommons.org; sciencecommons.org; neurocommons.org)
Title: The Digital Commons: Infrastructure for The Data Web
Where: NCSA Auditorium (Room 1122 NCSA Bldg)
When: 3 - 4 PM, Monday, July 13th
Please read the accompanying flyer for a descriptive abstract of the talk.
Local Contact: "Beth McKown" bmckown@ncsa.uiuc.edu, 244-0078
~ Katie
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Prof. Katie Newman
Biotechnology Librarian
Office: 2130 IGB (Inst. for Genomic Biology)
Email: florador@illinois.edu
Phone: (217) 265-5386
FAX: (217)-244-1800
Biotechnology Information Center (BIC) website:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/
BIC News: http://www.library.illinois.edu/blog/bicnews/
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Posted by mmalliso at 3:01 PM
June 12, 2009
Library Catalog: Upgrade and unavailablity
Hi, everyone, (sorry for any duplicate message you may receive on this issue...)
The Library Catalog is being upgraded to provide a more user-friendly search interface for you!
The upgrade will start early Sunday morning and is expected to be finished by Tuesday or Wednesday, next week.
During the Upgrade:
* You may continue to search the catalog during the upgrade period, but you will be searching a "frozen" database ... the frozen data was captured June 7th.
* You will not be able to request or renew books online for a few days.
* If you need to check a book out or renew it, you will have to go to a library.
* If you returned a book sometime after June 7th, the Catalog will not reflect that until next Tuesday or Wednesday.
* Down time will be Sunday & Monday, but could extend into Tuesday & Wednesday.
* The ORR, journal databases, and access to electronic journals will continue to work as usual.
If you have any questions / concerns about this process, please let me know!
Katie
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Prof. Katie Newman
Biotechnology Librarian
Office: 2130 IGB (Inst. for Genomic Biology)
Email: florador@illinois.edu
Phone: (217) 265-5386
FAX: (217)-244-1800
Biotechnology Information Center (BIC) website:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/
BIC News: http://www.library.illinois.edu/blog/bicnews/
Posted by mmalliso at 2:41 PM
June 10, 2009
Trial subscription to AMA Manual of Style Online
The Library has a trial subscription to the new AMA Manual of Style Online (10th edition), the Manual’s first online edition. The Manual is a product of Oxford University Press and JAMA and the Archives Journals Click to trial subscription here.
Please let us know if you find this resource useful so we know whether to advocate for a full subscription to this resource.
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Melody Allison
Assistant Biology Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
mmalliso@illinois.edu
(217) 333-7461; 3654
Posted by mmalliso at 4:15 PM
June 4, 2009
New Exhibit in Biology Library
The Biology Library has a new exhibit, "Medicinal Plants and Indigenous Medicinal
Plant Knowledge." Displayed are selected titles received thanks due to a 2009 collection development grant from the Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).
Four libraries participated in the collection theme “Impact of the Environment in Health & Wellness:” Chicago State University Library, Columbia College Library, Northern Illinois U. Founders Memorial Library, and University of Illinois Biology Library.
Enjoy!
Melody Allison
Assistant Biology Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
mmalliso@illinois.edu
(217) 333-7461; 3654
Posted by mmalliso at 4:34 PM