Peter Suber Reviews OA Mandates, Including NIH’s.
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman was a best-selling exploration of the opening weeks of WWI. Since then various authors have rendered hommage to the work and to the author by appropriating the title for their own creations. Among these is Prof. Peter Suber who writes The SPARC Open Access Newsletter or SOAN. In the issue for Feb. 2, Prof. Suber explores, in The Mandates of January, the numerous policy releases and recommendations for OA publishing issued by various governmental agencies or other groups during the month of January. Among them of course was the NIH policy. He is very, very thorough on the NIH document and I have recommended his analyis to inquirers at our campus. He includes the necessary links to primary documents and web sites. I think we are very fortunate to have an able and articulate expositor for OA concerns, and one who comes from a background in philosophy and law. These are fields in which you have to pay attention to texts and read them closely, to see both what is and isn’t there. I hope you can take a moment to visit SOAN and read his summary.
