Upcoming Teleconference Series: Open Access and Open Source
Sponsor: Chemists without Borders (CWB)
Date and Time: Thursday, April 5 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time / Noon Eastern Time

Heather Joseph, Executive Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), will talk about the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA). FRPAA is anticipated to be re-introduced this spring. The purpose of this bill is to require all U.S. Federal research granting agencies with portfolios of over $100 million (11 agencies altogether) to develop policies requiring open access to the results of the research they fund. FRPAA has been endorsed by many higher education leaders and the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.

See Also:: CWB Position Paper on Open Chemistry
3 pages; PDF.

Additional Teleconferences in this Series
Thursday, June 7, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time / Noon Eastern Time
Peter Suber: Open Access Questions & Answers
Peter Suber, Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Project,
author of Open Access News

Thursday, September 6 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time / Noon Eastern Time
Jean-Claude Bradley: Open Source Chemistry
Chemists Without Borders’ own Jean-Claude Bradley, Coordinator for E-
Learning at the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University,
will talk about the Useful Chemistry approach to open source
chemistry, founded by Bradley.
Source: CWB

See Also: EDUCAUSE Interview with Heather Joseph (April 21, 2006)

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